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    Venus and Satyr

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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Venus and Satyr
    Date
    c.1752 (undated)
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    Metric: 48.3 x 62.9 cm [unseen]
    Imperial: 19 x 24 3/4 in. [unseen]
    Collection
    Location Unknown
    Wilson Online Reference
    P41
    Provenance
    Painted in Rome for Ralph Howard (1727-1789; Viscount Wicklow from 1785); by descent to William Cecil James, 8th Earl of Wicklow, Shelton Abbey, Arklow, Co. Wicklow, Ireland; Sotheby's London, 23 October 1950 (1600 - Venus and Satire by Coypel); bt Father D.J. Lucey; Sotheby's 1 December 1954 (144), bt Burfitt
    Critical commentary
    One of Wilson's two first and only nudes as such (see also P40). Both were painted at a time when Wilson was influenced by Titian.
    Bibliography
    Ford May 1951, p. 166, fig. 21; WGC, pl. 16b; Clark & Bowron 1985, p. 255 under cat. 165; Wilson and Europe 2014, p. 58, fig. 50
    Link to WG Constable Archive Record
    WGC/1/1/19
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    2020-04-30 00:00:00

    Biographies

    • Ralph Howard, Viscount Wicklow (1726-1789)

    Documents

    • William George Constable, Richard Wilson
    • Martin Postle & Robin Simon, Richard Wilson and the Transformation of European Landscape Painting
    • Anthony M. Clark and Edgar Peters Bowron, Pompeo Batoni: A Complete Catalogue of his Works with an Introductory Text
    • Brinsley Ford, 'Richard Wilson in Rome: I - The Wicklow Wilsons'
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