Portrait of Miss Moffat
Stories of women, jewels, and pearls, popular when this painting was first exhibited in 1826 in London, help to explain this enigmatic portrait. Pearls were especially associated with purity; in classical myth, they were believed to be the droplets of water that Venus, the god...
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21190
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Sale, Christie's, London, June 10 1899; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, before 1901; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
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en
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2
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| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.72 |
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