Artiste(s):

unknown maker

after GROS, Antoine-Jean, baron (1771-1835)

Titre anglais composé:

Madame Lucien Bonaparte standing by a waterfall.

Description:

Full-length portrait in a landscape with waterfall of Lucien's wife Christine Boyer. She is clothed simply in a daydress, veil, and shawl, and stands with her arms crossed in front of her stomach. She looks wistfully down at a flower that she has dropped into the rushing current of the stream at her feet. After the posthumous portrait by Gros.

Travail Original:

Portrait de Christine Boyer.

by

Gros, Antoine-Jean, baron (1771-1835)

1800

. Oil on canvas; 214 x 134 cm; Louvre.

Sujet(s):

Bonaparte, Christine Boyer, Madame Lucien (1773-1800)

Technique:

engraving

Dimensions:

221 x 139 mm (sheet)

Condition:

stained

Note spécifique à l'exemplaire:

recto, top right: "1ere femme de Lucien Bonaparte" ; top right: illegible writing ; bottom centre-right: illegible collector's markings ; verso: "Gros || Madame Lucien Bonaparte"

Provenance:

"1xa" collector

Notes de McGill:

Pennington Catalogue p. 2242a

Variantes:

8° P 008

Œuvres associées:

GROS, Antoine-Jean, baron (1771-1835); 'Portrait de Christine Boyer.'

Cote:

8° P 009