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画作名称:
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The Hon. Mrs. Thomas Graham |
中文名称:
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托马斯·格雷厄姆夫人 |
画 家:
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托马斯·庚斯博罗(Thomas Gainsborough) |
作品年份:
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c.1775/1777 年 |
原作材质:
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布面油画 |
画作尺寸:
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89.5 x 69 cm |
馆藏链接:
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美国国家美术馆(National Gallery of Art,Washington,DC) |
备注信息:
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Shown from the hips up, an elegantly dressed woman with smooth, pale skin and ash-brown hair piled high on her head looks off into the distance to our left in front of a loosely painted landscape in this vertical portrait. Her body is angled to our right but she looks in the opposite direction with clear blue eyes under faint eyebrows. She has rosy cheeks, a small nose, and bow-shaped, apple-red lips set in an oval face. Her hair is streaked with brown and gray, and is arranged in a high updo with a long tendril curling down in front of her right shoulder, to our left. A string of silver pearls are wound through her hair at the top, and a few strokes of bronze-colored and white paint faintly suggest a veil or other head covering at the back of her head. Her dress is also loosely painted with dashes of pewter gray and honey gold. The low, curving neckline and cuffs of the long sleeves are edged with gold ribbon and ivory-white ruffles. A jewel, possibly a large pearl, hangs at the center of the neckline on her chest. She crosses her wrists across her waist and holds the fabric of the dress in one hand and a piece of bronze-gold fabric with the other. The landscape behind her has pine-green trees framing a deep, topaz-blue sky with parchment-white and pale peach clouds.
The lightweight canvas is plain woven; it has been lined. An x-radiograph reveals cusping along the bottom edge, evidence that the painting has not been cut down. The ground, presently whitish brown possibly due to absorption of darkened media, may originally have been pure white and is exceptionally thin. The painting is executed in thin, translucent layers with more opaque paint in the lights of the flesh tones and sky and some areas of the foliage; thin layers of media-rich glazes have been applied in the costume and foliage. An area of original paint at the extreme bottom edge, which has been protected from the damaging effects of light by the rabbet of the frame, indicates that a rich deep red glaze was originally employed in the drapery and has faded considerably; the red glaze was probably used in the flesh tones as well. There are moderate retouchings in the face and neck, perhaps as a result of abrasion damage. The natural resin varnish has discolored yellow to a considerable degree.