Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Francesco Renaldi, 1755–after 1798, Italian, active in Britain (from 1777)
Title:
Muslim Lady Reclining
Date:
1789
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
22 1/2 × 27 1/2 inches (57.2 × 69.9 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated in black, lower right: "Fr. RENALDI PINXIT | [Dacca 7...9]"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.519
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
silver | hookah | genre subject | doors | rug | scarf | necklaces | window | earrings | collar | stool | woman | bracelets (jewelry) | anklets | girl | interior (space) | slippers | Indian | tray | jewel | ring | pillow | nose ring | reclining
Associated Places:
Dacca | Bangladesh | India
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26)

"Brilliant Effects" [ Jewels ] (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-07-10 - 2004-01-10)

The Splendours of Princely India (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985-11 - 1986-02-23)
Publications:
Mildred Archer, India and British Portraiture, 1770-1825, Sotheby Parke Bernet, London, 1979, pp. 280, 505, fig. 195, ND 1327 I44 A72 (YCBA)

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 184-185, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)

Jonathan Eacott, Selling empire : India in the making of Britain and America, 1600-1830, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2016, p. 292-93, Pl. 17, DA16 .E23 2016 (YCBA)

Pran Nevile, The Raj revisited, Niyogi Books, New Delhi, 2012, p. 110, N8214.5.I5 N48 2012 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1003