A Girl in a Blue Dress
A Girl in a Blue Dress
- Artist
- Pietro Rotari
- Artist Dates
- 1707-1762
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Title
- A Girl in a Blue Dress
- Date
- after 1756
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 43.8 x 33.6 cm (17-1/4 x 13-1/4 in)
- K Number
- K392
- Repository
- El Paso Museum of Art
- Accession Number
- 1961.1.46
- Notes
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This painting and A Girl in a Red Dress (K391), also in the collection of the El Paso Museum of Art, may be thought of as a pair or as forming a series of four canvases with A Sleeping Girl (K228A) and A Girl with a Flower in Her Hair (K222B), in the Samuel H. Kress Collection in the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Provenance
(Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi [1878-1955], Rome-Florence); sold to Samuel H. Kress [1863-1955] on 10 October 1935 ; gift to El Paso Museum of Art in 1961, no.1961.1.46.
Catalogue Entry
Pietro Rotari
A Girl in a Blue Dress
K392
El Paso, Tex., EI Paso Museum of Art (1961-6/39a and 1961-6/39b), since 1961.(1) Canvas. Each, 17 1/4 X 13 1/4 in. (43.8 X 33.6 cm.). Both in good condition. For the commentary see K228A and K228B, above. Provenance: Contini Bonacossi, Florence.(2) Kress acquisition, 1935.
References
(1) Catalogue by F. R. Shapley, 1961, no. 39, as Rotari. K391 and K392 have been attributed to Rotari by B. Berenson, G. Fiocco, R. Longhi, R. van Marle, F. M. Perkins, W. E. Suida, and A. Venturi (in ms. opinions). (2) No earlier provenance data is available, but it is possible that K391, K392, K228A, and K228B were all painted for a single series, wherever that may have been located originally –probably in St. Petersburg.