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Young Russian Woman
(Baroque Europe )
This painting of a young woman with her head slightly tilted back, parted lips, low cut dress, and gaze that meets that of the beholder is a study in the coy sensuality so often encountered in French rococo art of the period. The painting lacks the formality of a commissioned portrait and is rather a study of female seductiveness meant for a male patron.
Rotari worked in his native Verona before moving to Vienna and Dresden and finally became court painter to Empress Elizabeth of Russia in 1756. This work is from his time in St. Petersburg.
For more information on this painting, please see Federico Zeri's 1976 catalogue Italian Paintings in the Walters Art Gallery, no. 456, pp. 568-569.
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Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Kotchoubey, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Mrs. Julius Levy, Baltimore, prior to 1925 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Philip B. Perlman, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1960, by bequest.
Geographies
Russia, St. Petersburg (Place of Origin)
Measurements
Painted surface H: 17 1/2 x W: 13 7/16 in. (44.5 x 34.1 cm)
Credit Line
Bequest of Philip B. Perlman, 1960
Location in Museum
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
37.2377