Portrait of a Lady

ca. 1740

William Hogarth English, 1697-1764

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British, Level 3, South Wing

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Title Portrait of a Lady

Artwork Date ca. 1740

Artist William Hogarth

Life Dates 1697-1764

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. English

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 30 1/8 × 25 3/8 inches (76.5 × 64.5 cm) Framed: 37 3/4 × 32 3/4 × 3 3/4 inches (95.9 × 83.2 × 9.5 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 27.11

Markings

Marks Label, on stretcher, on paper with blue borders, handwritten: Hogarth Book Label, on stretcher, on paper with blue borders, typewritten: Collection: Lord Taunton Label, on stretcher, on paper with blue borders, handwritten: 77 Label, on canvas, upper left: [Smith College loan] Labels, on frame: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts: 160-66-23; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Carnegie Institute, Baltimore Museum of Art (receipt 3840-3) [exhibition labels] Label, metallic: [gallery or frame label with title, artist, credit line, accession number]

Provenance

Lord Taunton (England)

(Arthur Tooth & Sons, Ltd., London, England)

1927, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA) [for £1900]

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Published References

I.J.W. "A Portrait by William Hogarth." Bulletin of the DIA 8, no. 7 (April 1927): pp. 75-76 (ill.).

Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, cat. 102 (ill.).

Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 62, no. 102.

Variations - Three Centuries of Paintings. Exh. cat., Addison Gallery of American Art. Andover, 1954, no. 6.

Age of Elegance: The Rococo and its Effect. Exh. cat., Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore, 1959, no. 349.

Beckett, R.B. Hogarth. London, 1949, p. 57, no. 125 (ill.).

Survey of British Painting (checklist with essay). Pittsburgh, 1938, no. 22.

Three Centuries of British Painting. Exh. cat., Milwaukee Art Institute. Milwaukee, 1946.

William Hogarth. Exh. cat., Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Richmond, 1966, cat. 23, p. 22 (ill.).

Hogarth. Exh. cat., Tate Gallery. London, 1971, cat. 113.

Cummings, Frederick J., ed. Selected Works from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1979, p. 81, no. 51 (ill.).

Painting in the Grand Manner. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts, et al. Detroit, 1985, checklist no 4.

Bandes, Susan J. Pursuits and Pleasures: Baroque Paintings from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Dennos Museum Center, Kalamazoo Art Museum, Kresge Art Museum, Muskegon Museum of Art. Battle Creek, 2003, pp. 22, 23 (ill.).

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