Penelope
Watercolour Drawing
1868 (made)
1868 (made)
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| Place of origin |
Monochromatic watercolour painted in sepia or bistre shades, a young woman standing in profile on a carpet in an interior beside a small occasional table. On the table is some folded fabric, a picture frame, and a flower in a vase. The woman wears a dress with vaguely Renaissance-inspired sleeves and no crinoline or bustle. She holds a needle and some rolled fabric which she is stitching at or embroidering. Stamped with a Paquin archive stamp
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Penelope (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | sepia watercolour |
| Brief description | Unknown, after Charles-François Marchal. 'Penelope'. Sepia watercolour drawing of a woman standing in profile beside an occasional table, embroidering. French, 1868-70 |
| Physical description | Monochromatic watercolour painted in sepia or bistre shades, a young woman standing in profile on a carpet in an interior beside a small occasional table. On the table is some folded fabric, a picture frame, and a flower in a vase. The woman wears a dress with vaguely Renaissance-inspired sleeves and no crinoline or bustle. She holds a needle and some rolled fabric which she is stitching at or embroidering. Stamped with a Paquin archive stamp |
| Credit line | Given by the House of Worth |
| Object history | The Charles-François Marchal painting upon which this study was based is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met number 17.138.2) and was exhibited with immediate success at the Salon of 1868. Penelope, the wife of Odysseus, is redressed in a modest but fashionable day dress appropriate for a proper bourgeois woman and shown working industriously at her needlework while gazing at a portrait of her husband. - Daniel Milford-Cottam (May 2013) |
| Bibliographic reference | Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1957-1958 London: HMSO, 1964 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.22396:3-1957 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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