Woman in Blue
| Woman in Blue | |
|---|---|
| Artist | Thomas Gainsborough |
| Year | ca. 1775–1785 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 76.5 cm × 63.5 cm (30.1 in × 25.0 in) |
| Location | Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg |
The Portrait of a Lady in Blue,[1] or Woman in Blue,[2] 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.[2][3]
Some art historians have identified its subject as the Duchess of Beaufort, daughter of Edward Boscawen.[1] 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 Gainsborough's only work in Russia.[2]
References
- ^ a b "Designer prohibited from using Gainsborough's Lady in Blue". Rapsi, Russian Legal Information Agency. 27 February 2012. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
- ^ a b c "Hermitage catalogue page". Hermitage Museum. Archived from the original on 14 March 2016.
Woman in Blue
- ^ (in Catalan) VV. AA. Museos del Mundo, Museos del Hermitage. Sant Petersburg: Planeta de Agostini, 2005, p. 53. ISBN 84-674-2001-4.