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Source Description
This tapestry, which depicts a woman at an easel personifying Painting, belonged to Madame de Pompadour. A subtle comment on exchange between media, the work represents one medium (painting) in a different medium (tapestry). When the tapestry was exhibited in 1765, critics marveled at how closely it imitated the painting it reproduced. The philosopher Denis Diderot wrote: “My word, if anyone standing four feet away is able to distinguish between the painting and the tapestry, I would give him both of them.”
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Document identity
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24490
label
Allegorical Figure of a Woman Representing ""Painting""
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Source metadata
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24490
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object
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normalized
title
Allegorical Figure of a Woman Representing ""Painting""
description
This tapestry, which depicts a woman at an easel personifying Painting, belonged to Madame de Pompadour. A subtle comment on exchange between media, the work represents one medium (painting) in a different medium (tapestry). When the tapestry was exhibited in 1765, critics marveled at how closely it imitated the painting it reproduced. The philosopher Denis Diderot wrote: “My word, if anyone standing four feet away is able to distinguish between the painting and the tapestry, I would give him both of them.”
provenance
Commissioned (?) by Madame de Pompadour; inherited by the Marquis de Marigny, 1764; sale of the Marquis de Marigny, Paris, March 18-April 6 1782, no. 126; purchased by Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Lebrun, 1782; exhibited at the Exposition d'art français du XVIII siecle, 1910, no. 60; sale of Joseph Bardac, Paris, December 9 1927, no. 135; Guerault, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; purchased by Henry Walters, Paris, 1928; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
date
1763
citationUrl
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CC0
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en
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tapestries
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4
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import
dimensions
units
cm
width
85
height
68.5
dimensionsRaw
H: 33 7/16 × W: 26 15/16 in. (85 × 68.5 cm); Framed H: 45 1/4 × W: 38 3/4 × D: 5 1/8 in. (115 × 98.5 × 13 cm)
Source extras
inscriptions
[Inscription] Carle Van Loo / Cozette exc. 1763
med
silk on cotton warp
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4386
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EAN
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3390
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