Woman in Blue
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| Artist | Thomas Gainsborough |
| Year | 1770-1780 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 76.5 cm × 63.5 cm (30.1 in × 25.0 in) |
| Location | Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg |
Woman in Blue is an oil on canvas portrait of an unknown woman, executed in the late 1770s - 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 , making it the only work by the artist in Russia.[4]
References[]
- ^ Woman in Blue. "Hermitage Museum".
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ (in Catalan) VV. AA.. Museos del Mundo, Museos del Hermitage. Sant Petersburg: Planeta de Agostini, 2005, p. 53. ISBN 84-674-2001-4.
- ^ "Designer prohibited from using Gainsborough's Lady in Blue". Rapsi, Russian Legal Information Agency. 27 February 2012. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
- ^ "Hermitage catalogue page". Retrieved 1 November 2015.
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