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Purchased with funds provided by Sondra Ward Eisenberg in honor of the Docent Program of The Art Institute of Chicago
Catalogue
- Year
- 1766
- Dimensions
- Image: 19.5 × 15.5 cm (7 11/16 × 6 1/8 in.); Plate: 21.5 × 16.5 cm (8 1/2 × 6 1/2 in.); Sheet: 23.5 × 18.5 cm (9 5/16 × 7 5/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Angelica Kauffman
Artist
Painting
Maria Anna Angelika Kauffmann, usually known in English as Angelica Kauffman, was a Swiss painter who had a successful career in London and Rome. Remembered primarily as a history painter, Kauffman was a skilled portraitist, landscape and decoration painter. She was, along with Mary Moser, one of two female painters among the founding members of the Royal Academy of Art in London in 1768.
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1780 · Etching and aquatint on ivory laid paper
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1770 · Etching on paper
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1770 · Etching and aquatint in brown on buff laid paper
Mrs. Hugh Morgan and Her Daughter
1766 · Oil on canvas
Woman at Spinet
1761 · Graphite, heightened with white chalk, on blue prepared ground, on off-white wove paper, tipped onto ivory wove paper
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- Angelica Kauffman
- Year
- 1766
- Dimensions
- Image: 19.5 × 15.5 cm (7 11/16 × 6 1/8 in.); Plate: 21.5 × 16.5 cm (8 1/2 × 6 1/2 in.); Sheet: 23.5 × 18.5 cm (9 5/16 × 7 5/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1766-534952
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
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