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Source Description
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 golden chain symbolizes the potentially misleading view of reality that art can convey even when appearing to imitate nature.Corvi's buoyant, cheerful forms are close to those of French rococo art of the period.For more information on this painting, please see Federico Zeri's 1976 catalogue no. 426, pp. 536-537.
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Document identity
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20010
label
Allegory of Painting
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obj
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drawing
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Source metadata
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20010
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drawing
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normalized
title
Allegory of Painting
description
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 golden chain symbolizes the potentially misleading view of reality that art can convey even when appearing to imitate nature.Corvi's buoyant, cheerful forms are close to those of French rococo art of the period.For more information on this painting, please see Federico Zeri's 1976 catalogue no. 426, pp. 536-537.
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.
date
1764 (Baroque)
citationUrl
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CC0
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en
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Painting & Drawing
oil paintings (visual works)
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2
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2
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import
dimensions
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cm
width
60.5
height
73.3
dimensionsRaw
Painted surface H: 23 13/16 x W: 28 7/8 in. (60.5 x 73.3 cm)
Source extras
med
oil on canvas
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5036
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948
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1
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photo
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2
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photo
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