- Title:
- Portrait of a Lady
- Object name(s):
- Picture; French
- Brief description:
- The sitter for this portrait by the Spanish artist Raimundo de Madrazo has not yet been identified, but her clothes can be dated to the late 1880s or early 1890s. As the clothing is unfinished, this may be a study for a larger portrait.Born in Rome in 1841 into a family of artists of noble descent, Madrazo initially studied in Madrid. In 1860 he visited Paris, where he settled permanently from 1862. He continued his training there, which included studying with Léon Cogniet. Madrazo was also influenced by the Belgian painter Alfred Stevens, who was by then an extremely successful portraitist, particularly of elegantly dressed society women.Despite its possible unfinished state this portrait shows Madrazo’s polished technique, which established him as a much sought-after portrait painter both in France and America, where his clients included the Vanderbilt family. His brother-in-law was another important Spanish artist, Mariano Fortuny.
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Accession date:
- 1917-01-01
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1917
- Date - latest:
- 1917
- Acquisition source:
- Sir Hugh Percy Lane
- Credit line:
- Sir Hugh Lane Bequest, 1917, The National Gallery, London. In partnership with Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin.
- Current location:
- Not on display
- Current reproduction location:
- 4/98/303/856/mid_N-3254-00-000013.jpg
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 49.50
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 40.00
- Form:
- None
- Inscription content:
- Signed
- Material:
- oil on canvas
- Material:
- oil
- Material:
- canvas
- Object name:
- Picture; French
- Object production date:
- 1885-95
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1885
- Date - latest:
- 1895
- Object production date:
- Date - period:
- 1875-99
- Object production person:
- Raimundo de Madrazo
- Person's birth date:
- 1841
- Person's death date:
- 1920
- Object production place:
- France
- Object production place:
- Paris
- Other number:
- NG3254
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0GG5-0001-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- NG3254
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- 000-04P0-0000
- Other number type:
- PID (NG alternative)
- Other number:
- ng33254
- Other number type:
- sort number
- Owner:
- Sir Hugh Percy Lane
- 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:
- realist
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: French School: Early 19th Century, Impressionists, Post-Impressionists etc.
- Reference details:
- 89
- Reference note:
- Latest catalogue
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue
- Reference details:
- 400
- Reference note:
- Key bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Hugh Lane : founder of a gallery of modern art for Ireland /edited by Barbara Dawson ; assisted by Logan Sisley, Jessica O'Donnell, and Michael Dempsey.
- Reference details:
- Ill. (p. 138)
- Reference type:
- reference
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Use licence for this record: CC BY
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