Portrait of an Unknown Woman
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Basic information
- ID
- Ж-6064
- Author
- unknown
- Name
- Portrait of an Unknown Woman
- Date of creation
- 18th c.
- Country
- Flanders
- Technique
- oil painting
- Material
- canvas oil
- Dimensions
- 76.5 x 52.4 cm (height x width)
Additionally
- Type
- painting
- Genre
- portraiture
- Provenance
- Lviv Historical Museum
Information about author
Object description
The half-length image of the woman is in the tradition of eighteenth-century secular portraiture. Stylistic changes in the Ukrainian portrait were in line with the trends of European painting. Images of fashionable dandies began to appear alongside the figures of courageous men with stern faces, as well as unemotional and restrained women on the canvases were replaced by ladies slightly smiling. From the end of the 17th century, the portraits of noble women, along with the change of traditional dress to the French fashionable garments, began to imitate European models. An indistinct silhouette of a figure stands out against a dark neutral background. The painter captures the figure of the woman with small strokes. The lady is depicted in a décolleté dress decorated with lace, with two rows of pearls around her neck. She holds a fan in her right hand and a watch in her left. The portrait is made in a restrained colour scheme.
Legal regulation
Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery
