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Creator:
Rolland Lefebvre, 1608–1677
Title:
The Young Widow
Date:
ca. 1665
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
29 3/4 x 25 1/4 inches (75.6 x 64.1 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1974.3.13
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Link to Frame:
B1974.3.13FR
Subject Terms:
costume | mourning | oval | portrait | widow | woman
Access:
Not on view
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:174
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Very little is known about the French miniaturist, portrait, and history painter Rolland Lefebvre of Anjou, and nothing at all about the subject of this portrait. He spent time in Venice and Rome (where he is documented in 1636); made an early visit to England, possibly in 1633; and settled permanently in Paris, where in 1662 he is documented at the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture. In 1676, he went back to England as a kind of protégé of Prince Rupert, count palatine of the Rhine (1619-1682), for whom he produced faux stained marble.The antiquarian George Vertue claimed that some of his paintings were "very obscene." He died in Bear Street and was buried in St. Martin-in-the-Fields.

Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2005

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 144-145, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Matthew Hargraves, "Yale Center for British Art joins Art UK", ArtUK, 24 June 2019, Available online https://artuk.org/discover/stories/yale-center-for-british-art-joins-art-uk [Website]


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