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Figure of a Woman
Provenance
Dan Fellows Platt (died 1938), Englewood, NY, probably by 1932 [according to Chicago 1946; Chicago 1932]. Durlacher Brothers, New York, by 1942 [New York 1942]; sold to the Art Institute, 1944.
Exhibition history
New York, Durlacher Brothers, “6th Annual Drawing Show,” 1942. The Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings: Old and New,” 1946, p. 23, cat. 46, pl. VIII, cat. by Carl Schniewind. Minneapolis, Minn., The University of Minnesota Gallery, “The Eighteenth Century: One Hundred Drawings by One Hundred Artists,” 1961. New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 124, as "Lady Hamilton as Ariadne." The Art Institute of Chicago, "A Quarter Century of Collecting: Drawings Given to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1944-1970 by Margaret Day Blake," April 28-June 7, 1970, n.p., cat. 24 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, "Shockingly Mad: Henry Fuseli and the Art of Drawing", November 16, 2017 - April 1, 2018.
Publications
B. Holme, "Master Drawings" (New York, 1943), p. 15 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report (1944), p. 7 (ill.). J. Watrous, The Craft of Old Master Drawings (Madison, 1957), p. 76 (ill.). Alfred Frankfurter, “’Il bon disegno’ from Chicago,” Art News, 62 (November, 1963), p. 30 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- George Romney / English, 1734-1802
- Date
- c. 1776
- Medium
- Brush and brown ink on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 43.2 × 23.8 cm (17 1/16 × 9 3/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- ink
- Place
- England
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Tiffany and Margaret Blake
- Accession no.
- 1944.580
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Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00002963
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