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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Figure of a Woman
    George Romney. Figure of a Woman, c. 1776. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00002963

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    Figure of a Woman

    by George Romney

    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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