Portrait of a Lady / Johann Tischbein
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- Accession Number
- 1895.35
- Title
- Portrait of a Lady
- Artist
- Johann Tischbein
- Artist Nationality
- German
- Artist Life Dates
- 1715-1768
- Medium and Support
- oil on canvas
- Object Creation Date
- 1754
- Object Creation Place
- Europe (continent)
- Germany (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- Europe (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Germany (nation)
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Henry C. Lewis
- Inscription
- Inscribed verso l.r.: JV Tischbein./fecit/1764
- Dimensions
- 104.78 cm x 92.71 cm (41 1/4 in. x 36 1/2 in.)
- Century
- 18th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Primary Object Type
- portrait
- Physical Description
- An elegantly attired young woman is shown in a half-length portrait. Her hands are crossed in front of her at the wrist and she holds a partially open folding fan in her right hand. Her blue silk dress has long lace cuffs and a lace overlay at the shoulders and bodice. The bodice is also ornamented with silk bows of matching silk. At her neck is an elaborate pearl and lace choker; she has a matching pearl bracelet and seed pear earring. Her haif carries the blue of dress in the ornamentation at the crown of her head. Ribbons from her hair ornament cascade down either side of her bosom.
- Subject Matter
- Johann Valentin Tischbein was a member of a prosperous Saxony-based family of artists. Tischbein spent time in the Netherlands working in Maastricht in 1747 and then at the Hague in 1750, before settling in Kassel as a court painter.
- We do not know the sitter of this portrait, but from her elaborate dress we may assume that she was a young woman of rank in the region near Kassel. This painting is unusual in that it has never been relined (the process of adding a second canvas behind the original to give it support and strength) and preserves the freshness of the brushwork, particularly in the areas of the lace where the delicate impasto is frequently lost during relining.
- Primary Keywords
- fans (costume accessories)
- figures (representations)
- jewelry
- necklace
- portraits
- seated
- Secondary Keywords
- costume
- costume accessories
- costume accessories carried
- costume accessories worn
- figures
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 2420 x 2849
- File Size
- 403 KB
- Record
- 1895.35
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"Portrait of a Lady; Johann Tischbein." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1895.35/1895.35.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.
