Woman in Blue

For the painting by Cézanne also known as Woman in Blue, see Lady in Blue (Cézanne).

Woman in Blue
ArtistThomas Gainsborough
Yearca. 1775–1785
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions76.5 cm × 63.5 cm (30.1 in × 25.0 in)
LocationHermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg

Woman in Blue is an oil-on-canvas portrait of an unknown woman, executed in the late 1770s or early 1780s by the English artist Thomas Gainsborough during his fifteen-year stay in Bath, Somerset.[1][2]

Some art historians have identified its subject as the Duchess of Beaufort, daughter of Edward Boscawen.[3] It is now in the collection of the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, to which it was left in 1916 by Alexei Khitrovo, making it the only work by the artist in Russia.[4]

References

  1. ^ Woman in Blue. "Hermitage Museum".
  2. ^ (in Catalan) VV. AA.. Museos del Mundo, Museos del Hermitage. Sant Petersburg: Planeta de Agostini, 2005, p. 53. ISBN 84-674-2001-4.
  3. ^ "Designer prohibited from using Gainsborough's Lady in Blue". Rapsi, Russian Legal Information Agency. 27 February 2012. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
  4. ^ "Hermitage catalogue page". Retrieved 1 November 2015.


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