Louis Gauffier / Portrait of Dr. Penrose / 1798

Louis Gauffier
Portrait of Dr. Penrose
1798
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Creator Name: Gauffier, Louis
Creator Nationality: European; French
Creator Role: painter
Creator Dates/Places: 1761 - 1801
Gender: M
Creator Name-CRT: Louis Gauffier
Title: Portrait of Dr. Penrose
View: front
Creation Start Date: 1798
Creation End Date: 1798
Creation Date: 1798
Object Type: Paintings
Materials and Techniques: oil on canvas
Dimensions: H.27 x W.20-3/4 in.; H.68.58 x W.52.70 cm.
Inscriptions: SIGNATURE
AMICA Contributor: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Owner Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
ID Number: 66.20
Credit Line: The John R. Van Derlip Fund
Rights: http://www.artsmia.org/restrictions.html
Context:

Louis Gauffier was one of many French artists who fled Rome in 1793 in order to escape Roman reprisals following the execution of Louis XVI in France. Arriving in Florence, Gauffier the history painter adopted a portrait genre based on the flourishing market for commemorative likenesses of aristocrats set in characteristic landscapes of the region.

Thomas Penrose (1769-1851) was neither an artist (as the sketchbook he holds suggests), nor an aristocrat. However, the sitter had diplomatic ambitions and, at the time of this portrait, was serving as secretary to the English envoy to the Duke of Tuscany. With a high degree of finish, Gauffier depicts Penrose above Florence on an upper terrace of the Boboli gardens.

AMICA ID: MIA_.66.20
Component Measured: overall
Measurement Unit: in
AMICA Library Year: 1998
Media Metadata Rights: ?The Minneapolis Institute of Arts

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