Portrait of a Lady as Astronomy (Portrait of a Venetian Lady)

attributed to Lavinia Fontana, Italian, 1552 - 1614

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about 1585

Oil on canvas

Overall: 45 1/8 × 36 7/8 in. (114.6 × 93.7 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Alice and M. R. Schweitzer

P.961.255

Geography

Place Made: Italy, Europe

Period

1400-1600

Object Name

Painting

Research Area

Nazi-Era Provenance Research

Painting

Not on view

Inscriptions

Inscribed on astrolabe: sic ardva; Stretcher, reverse, ink stamp at corners: M.R. Schweitzer / 205 East 54th St. / New York 22, N.Y.

Course History

FRIT 34, Sex and Gender in the Italian Renaissance, Courtney Quaintance, Spring 2015

ITAL 7, Women in Renaissance Venice, Courtney Quaintance, Spring 2015

ITAL 23, 17th and 18th Century Italian Literature, Nancy Canepa, Spring 2022

Exhibition History

Art 2, Professors Turril & Zemal, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 23-February 12, 1990.

Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 21, 1981.

The Object World, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, ARTH2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 5-March 15, 2015.

The Renaissance: Forms, Reforms and Revolutions, Barrows and Strauss Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 9-September 3, 1982.

Publication History

Jacquelynn Baas, From "a few curious Elephants Bones" to Picasso, Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, September 1985, Hanover, New Hampshire: Dartmouth College, 1985, pp. 37-43, ill. p. 39

Provenance

Acquired by [Marthe] Alice (1915-2004) and M. R. [Meyer (Mac) R.] Schweitzer (1911-2006), New York, date unknown; given to present collection, 1961.

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