Pastel on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on canvas
Dimensions:
Sheet: 30 x 25 1/4 inches (76.2 x 64.1 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in artist's hand in red crayon bottom right: "J. Russel RA | pinxt 1799."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.6261
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
merchant | ram (animal) | portrait | old
Associated Places:
England | Wiltshire | Devizes | United Kingdom
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Art of the European Pastel Portrait (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011-05-17 - 2011-08-14)Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)English Portrait Drawings & Miniatures (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-12-05 - 1980-02-17)
Publications:
Katharine Baetjer, Pastel portraits, images of 18th-century Europe , The Metropolitan Museum Bulletin, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Spring 2011, pp. 52-54, no. 43, V 2326 (YCBA)Christie's sale catalogue : All the captial and valuable finished and unfinished original works of that distinguished artist, John Russell, Esq. R. A. : 14 February 1807, Christie's, 1807, p. 5, lot 63, Available at Art Sales Catalogues OnlineChristie's sale catalogue : Important pictures by Old Masters from the collection of the late Earl of Dudley : 16 June 1900, Christie's, 1900, p. 18, lot 121, Fiche B51 YCBAExhibition catalogue. 1799. 31th, Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, no. 31, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1799, p. 15, no 362, N5054 A53 v. 2 (YCBA)Neil Jeffares, Pastel Portraits, New York , Burlington Magazine, CLIII, July 2011, p. 500, N1 B87 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)Patrick Noon, English Portrait Drawings & Miniatures, Yale Center for British Art, 1979, p. 75, no. 79, NC772 N66+ (Wall Shelf) (YCBA)Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 2, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)George Charles Williamson, John Russell, RA, G. Bell & Sons, London, 1894, pp. 121, 138, NJ18 .R915 W55 (LC)+ Oversize YCBA