Francis Basset (1757–1835) likely commissioned Thomas Gainsborough to paint a pair of portraits depicting himself and his wife, Frances Susanna Coxe (c. 1760–1823), soon after he purchased their new home in 1785.
The woman holds a feather in the hand resting in her lap.
graphite: Eigendruck; lower right in graphite: EL Kirchner; top left verso by later hand
Inscriptions & Marks Inscriptions by later hand, upper center verso in graphite
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wash over black chalk on buff paper//border in pen and black ink added by later hand
On her lap is an oval shaped palette: the thumb of her left hand hooks through the
Celebrated by Malvasia as the creator and promoter of the new maniera moderna, Guido Reni (1575–1642) introduces the fourth age of painting: a period marked by an original and sometimes bold elaboration of the notion of artistic perfection developed by the Carracci and embodied more specifically by Ludovico’s “synthesis of styles.�
On the one hand, he cannot resist his infatuation with Guido’s work.
· Accession ID 2000.7.30 Artwork John Sartain, The County Election, 1854, hand-colored
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canvas · Accession ID 1975.98.1 Artwork Kenneth Noland, Poster Variation, hand-colored
Auguste Rodin was born in 1840, the second child and only son of Jean-Baptiste Rodin and Marie Cheffer, first-generation Parisians of modest means. Nothing in his family background or situation suggested that he might become an artist.
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