Lot 103
  • 103

Angelica Kauffman, R.A. 1741-1807

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Description

  • Angelica Kauffman, R.A.
  • Design directed by Beauty to give her Allegiance to poetry
  • Oil on canvas in a gilt plaster frame
  • 66cm by 66cm., 26 by 26in.

Provenance

Probably with Leggatt, London 1927 (photograph at Witt Library, Courtauld, London)
G & L Bollag, Zurich, 18 May, 1927
Purchased by the grandfather of the present owner, together with An Allegory of the Dream of the Young Horace, of the same size

Catalogue Note

The present composition corresponds to a roundel painted by Kauffman circa 1783 at Newby Hall, North Yorkshire.  This roundel is a pair to Beauty Directed by Prudence Rejects with Scorn the Solicitations of Folly.