- Title:
- Caterina Penza
- Object name(s):
- Picture; Italian
- Brief description:
- This portrait of Caterina Giovanna Penza (or Pensa) was probably intended to hang beside a companion picture of her husband, the Venetian architect Tommaso Temanza, in which he holds the instruments of his profession (Gallerie dell' Accademia, Venice). Alessandro was the son of artist Pietro Longhi, whose paintings are also in the National Gallery's collection.Born in 1721, Caterina married Tommaso in 1739 and was still alive in 1789, when her husband died. This portrait was painted in around 1760, when Caterina was about 40 years old. Her hair is neatly tied back and covered in wig powder to create a silver-grey appearance; her smile is relaxed and welcoming, her cheeks rosy and her features delicate. She wears an elegant dress embellished with a lace collar and gold embroidery, a corsage of different flowers and a string of pearls. Set against a plain background, her blue shawl and the flowers on her dress and in her hair bring the portrait to life.
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Accession date:
- 1924-01-01
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1924
- Date - latest:
- 1924
- Acquisition source:
- Dr Ludwig Mond
- Associated concept:
- jewellery
- Credit line:
- Mond Bequest, 1924
- Current location:
- Not on display
- Current reproduction location:
- 2/932/914/234/mid_N-3934-00-000008.jpg
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 60.40
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 48.30
- Form:
- None
- Material:
- oil on canvas
- Material:
- oil
- Material:
- canvas
- Object name:
- Picture; Italian (Venetian)
- Object production date:
- about 1760
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1760
- Date - latest:
- 1760
- Object production date:
- Date - period:
- 1750-74
- Object production person:
- Alessandro Longhi
- Person's birth date:
- 1733
- Person's death date:
- 1813
- Object production place:
- Italy
- Object production place:
- Venice
- Other number:
- NG3934
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0EHF-0001-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- NG3934
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- 000-02RC-0000
- Other number type:
- PID (NG alternative)
- Other number:
- ng33934
- Other number type:
- sort number
- Responsible department/section:
- Main Collection
- Right note:
- To encourage the use and reuse of the National Gallery's collection data, they are released under the following dedications and licences: Structured data (as opposed to narrative texts) are released under a Creative Commons Zero dedication (CC0): https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Descriptions, notes and all other narrative text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 licence (CC BY-NC-ND): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
- Style:
- bust portraits
- Style:
- female portraits
- Style:
- neoclassical
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Italian Schools
- Reference details:
- 151-2
- Reference note:
- Latest catalogue
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The Eighteenth Century Italian Schools
- Reference details:
- 69-70
- Reference note:
- Previous catalogues
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue
- Reference details:
- 386
- Reference note:
- Key bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery lends : pictures from eighteenth-century Venice : [an exhibition organised in conjunction with the Arts Council of Great Britain] /[selection of pictures and catalogue by Homan Potterton].
- Reference type:
- reference
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