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    Signora Felice Bocca Stretta

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    Signora Felice Bocca Stretta
    Signora Felice Bocca Stretta
    Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Signora Felice Bocca Stretta
    Date
    c.1751-52 (undated)
    Medium
    Black chalk and stump on white paper
    Dimensions
    Metric: 163 x 228 mm
    Imperial: 6 3/8 x 9 in.
    Collection
    Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. To license image, click here.
    Accession Number
    WA1855.132
    Wilson Online Reference
    D34
    Description
    Half-length female figure facing to the front, her smiling face inclined forwards and her proper right arm stretched out to her side. She wears a small lace bonnet, a bow round her neck, and a dress tightly bound at the waist
    Exhibited
    Baltimore 1979-80 (55); London, Cardiff and New Haven, 1982-83 (22)
    Provenance
    Chambers Hall Gift, 1855
    Signature/inscription
    Unsigned; inscribed in black chalk by the artist upper right: 'Sigra. Felice Bocca Stretto'
    Collectors' marks
    [1] Lower right corner: Chambers Hall (Lugt 551)
    [2] Lower right corner: Oxford University Galleries (Lugt 2003)
    Critical commentary
    'Signora Happy Narrow Mouth' was drawn from the life in Italy, probably in Venice, where Wilson was still principally interested in portraiture. The drawing is no. 4 (Girl with wide Mouth) in the Ashmolean's inventory of the Chambers Hall Gift. It is one of a few figure studies verging on caricature, dating from Wilson's first years in Italy, and predominantly originating from the collection of William Lock.
    Previous Cat/Ref Nos
    1883
    Bibliography
    Brown 1982, p. 657, no. 1883, pls 536 & XL; Solkin 1982, p. 158
    Updated by Compiler
    2017-09-05 00:00:00

    Exhibitions

    • London, Tate Gallery, Cardiff, National Museum of Wales, and New Haven, Conn., Yale Center for British Art, 3 November 1982 - 19 June 1983
    • Baltimore Museum of Art, USA, 1979-80

    Biographies

    • Chambers Hall (1786-1855)

    Documents

    • David Solkin, Richard Wilson: The Landscape of Reaction
    • David Blayney Brown, Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum, Volume IV: The Earlier British Drawings, British Artists and Foreigners working in Britain born before c.1775
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