About the Artwork
Portrait of a Lady
ca. 1740
William Hogarth
1697-1764
English
Unknown
Oil on canvas
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)
Paintings
European Painting
Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund
27.11
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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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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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William Hogarth, Portrait of a Lady, ca. 1740, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund, 27.11.
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