A young girl holding her cat, with a landscape in the distance

细节

SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, P.R.A (PLYMPTON 1723-1792 LONDON)
A young girl holding her cat, with a landscape in the distance
oil on canvas
30 3⁄8 x 25 ¼ in. (77.8 x 64.3 cm.)

来源

with Noel Joseph Desenfans, Esq, London.
Sir John Fleming Leicester (1762-1827), 1st Baron de Tabley, Tabley House, Cheshire and Berkeley Square, London; his deceased sale, Christie’s, London, 7 July 1827, lot 41, (247 gns. to the following),
J.H. Butterworth; [The Property of J. H. Butterworth], Christie’s, London, 1 March 1873, lot 44, where entitled 'Felina', and incorrectly identified as engraved by Collyer in 1790, (220 gns. to the following),
with Agnew's, London, where acquired by,
J. Heugh, Gaunts House, Dorsetshire; his sale, Christie's, London, 17 March 1877, lot 61, where entitled 'Felina', and incorrectly identified as engraved by Collyer in 1790, (800 gns.) where acquired by Agnew's on behalf of the following,
Junius Spencer Morgan (1813-1890), Hartford, CT, and by descent to his son,
John Pierpont Morgan Sr. (1837-1913), Hartford, CT, and by descent to his son,
John Pierpont Morgan Jr. (1867-1943), Irvington, NY.
with John Levy Galleries, New York, by 1934.
Benjamin Franklin Jones III (1895-1985), Sewickley Heights, PA (his label on the reverse), and by descent to the present owner.

出版

J. Young, A Catalogue of Pictures by British Artists in the Possession of Sir John Fleming Leicester Bart., London, 1821, p. 10, no. 21, illustrated with an engraving.
A. Graves and W. V. Cronen, A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, London, 1899-1901, III, p. 1121.
Sir W. Armstrong, Sir Joshua Reynolds: Firs President of the Royal Academy, London, 1900, p. 240.
D. Mannings and M. Postle, Sir Joshua Reynolds: A complete catalogue of his paintings, New Haven and London, 2000, I, pp. 535-536, no. 2087.

展览

London, Royal Academy, 1788, no. 378.
London, Royal Academy, Winter Exhibition, 1896, no. 17, entitled 'Felina'.

刻印

F. Bartolozzi, 1787.
S.W. Reynolds.
Anonymous etching for the catalogue of the J. F. Leicester Gallery, 1821.
J. Chant, 1876.

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拍品专文

Two different compositions of a young girl holding a kitten, both of which occasionally appear in the historical record under the title 'Felina', are counted among Sir Joshua Reynolds' fancy pictures. One, now in the Detroit Institute of Arts (inv. no. F71.68), depicts the child kneeling while holding a white and orange cat; the other is the present painting (D. Mannings and M. Postle, loc. cit.).

The fancy picture emerged as a genre in the eighteenth century and typically depicted young women or children. According to David Mannings, these works are characterized by their 'contrived innocence' (see 'Fancy Picture', Grove Art Online, 2003). Reynolds' subject and fancy pictures are among the most popular and frequently reproduced works in his oeuvre; more than 300 full-scale copies of his enigmatic The Age of Innocence (Tate Britain, inv. no. N00307) are known. The present composition was copied on at least two occasions and was imitated by four printmakers.

A young girl holding her cat, with a landscape in the distance

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