Angelica Kauffman (Coire 1741-1807 Rome) Electra offering a lock of hair to Chrysothemis, within a painted oval oil on canvas 49 x 59.6cm (19 5/16 x 23 7/16in). Fußnoten Provenance E.G. Raphael (according to the Agnews stockbook) With Agnews, London, where purchased by William H. Foster of Apley Park, Shropshire, in 1905, and thence by descent to the present owner Literature A catalogue of pictures at Apley Park, inv. no. 82 The present work depicts the scene from Sophocles' Electra, in which Electra gives her sister, Chrysothemis a lock of her hair and her belt to be laid on the tomb of their father, Agamemnon. Another version of the subject by Kauffman, a tondo with only two figures, is in a private collection and engraved by T. Macklin, in 1786 (see: British Museum, inv. no. 1873,0809.301). We are grateful to Prof. Wendy Roworth for confirming the attribution to Angelica Kauffmann upon examination of colour photographs.
Angelica Kauffman (Coire 1741-1807 Rome) Electra offering a lock of hair to Chrysothemis, within a painted oval oil on canvas 49 x 59.6cm (19 5/16 x 23 7/16in). Fußnoten Provenance E.G. Raphael (according to the Agnews stockbook) With Agnews, London, where purchased by William H. Foster of Apley Park, Shropshire, in 1905, and thence by descent to the present owner Literature A catalogue of pictures at Apley Park, inv. no. 82 The present work depicts the scene from Sophocles' Electra, in which Electra gives her sister, Chrysothemis a lock of her hair and her belt to be laid on the tomb of their father, Agamemnon. Another version of the subject by Kauffman, a tondo with only two figures, is in a private collection and engraved by T. Macklin, in 1786 (see: British Museum, inv. no. 1873,0809.301). We are grateful to Prof. Wendy Roworth for confirming the attribution to Angelica Kauffmann upon examination of colour photographs.
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