Allegory of Painting
This young woman with her palette and brushes is not seriously engaged in painting. Contemplating her reflection in a mirror held by a winged cupid, she is a personification of the self-conscious beauty that was then the goal of art. A mask attached to her headdress with a gol...
Images (2)
Drawing
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20010
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drawing
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normalized
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| provenance |
provenance
Royal Collections, Turin, 1764, by commission; Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1897 catalogue: no. 526, by A. R. Mengs]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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CC0
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language
en
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2
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import
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| thumbnailUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CON_37.1011_XR_1969.jpg |
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| largeImageUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CON_37.1011_XR_1969.jpg |
| iiifBase | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CON_37.1011_XR_1969.jpg |
| imageCount | 2 |
| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1011 |
Terms
Medium
oil on canvas
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