File:Angelica Kauffmann - Portrait of Sarah Harrop (Mrs. Bates) as a Muse - Google Art Project.jpg
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Angelica Kauffmann: Portrait of Sarah Harrop (Mrs. Bates) as a Muse | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q123098 Details on Google Art Project |
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Title |
English: Portrait of Sarah Harrop (Mrs. Bates) as a Muse |
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Object type |
painting object_type QS:P31,Q3305213 |
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Genre | portrait | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description |
English: Catalogue Entry:
Angelica Kauffmann’s portrait of the renowned singer Sarah Harrop (Mrs. Bates), arguably the artist’s masterpiece in portraiture, is a rare representation of a self-made woman, the great Handelian performer Sarah Harrop (1755–1811), by one of the very few professional women artists of the period. Kauffmann, one of two female cofounders of Britain’s Royal Academy, shows Harrop seated in the wilderness, a lyre at her side and a rolled sheet of music in her hand. The mountain, Mount Parnassos, is the home of the Muses, and the waterfall issues from the Hippocrene spring. The lyre most likely identifies Erato, the Muse of lyric poetry, and while the instrument is based on ancient types, the sheet music grounds the portrait in the eighteenth century, for it is recognizably an aria from George Frideric Handel’s opera Rodelinda, Queen of the Lombards (1725). The picture, first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1781, dates from around the time of Harrop’s marriage in 1780, a marriage to which she brought a substantial personal fortune made through her talents as a performer. The music hints at a personal meaning. The aria "Dove sei, l’amato bene" is sung not by Rodelinda but by her husband, whose longing words must have been chosen specifically for their personal significance in what was almost certainly a marriage portrait. That Kauffmann the artist was also married at about this time, to a fellow artist of more pedestrian talents, Antonio Zucchi, only deepens its resonance. Gallery Label: This rare portrait of a self-made woman by one of the few professional female artists of the period suggests an unusual sympathy between artist and sitter. Kauffmann, one of two female founding members of London’s Royal Academy, shows Harrop in the wilderness, a lyre by her side and a roll of music in her hand. The background alludes to Mount Parnassus, the home of the ancient muses, while the lyre likely identifies Erato, the muse of lyric poetry. The sheet music grounds the portrait in the modern world: it is an aria from George Frideric Handel’s opera Rodelinda, Queen of the Lombards (1725). The picture dates from the time of Harrop’s marriage and the music reinforces its role as a marriage portrait. The aria “Dove sei, l’amato bene” is sung by Rodelinda’s husband, King Bertarido, in hiding and believed dead, when he learns his wife has agreed to marry the usurper to save the life of their son. This plaintive aria begs Rodelinda to console his soul and laments that he can bear his torments only with her. Harrop, whose husband and mentor was a musician of modest origins and a promoter of Handel’s works, was a celebrated interpreter of the composer’s operas and oratorios. |
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Date |
from 1780 until 1781 date QS:P571,+1780-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P580,+1780-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1781-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium |
oil on canvas medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259 |
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Dimensions |
height: 142 cm (55.9 in); width: 121 cm (47.6 in) dimensions QS:P2048,142U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,121U174728 frame: height: 163.8 cm (64.4 in); width: 141 cm (55.5 in); depth: 6.3 cm (2.4 in) dimensions QS:P2048,163.8U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,141U174728 dimensions QS:P5524,6.3U174728 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q2603905 |
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Accession number |
2010-101 |
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Place of creation | United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Credit line | Museum purchase, Surdna Fund and Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notes | More info at museum site | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Camera model | Hasselblad H3D-39 |
Author | Bruce White |
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Date and time of data generation | 12:16, 13 September 2010 |
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File change date and time | 14:02, 13 September 2010 |
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Exif version | 2.1 |
Date and time of digitizing | 12:16, 13 September 2010 |
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Date metadata was last modified | 10:02, 13 September 2010 |
Unique ID of original document | xmp.did:0980117407206811B90BF3244798752A |
Contact information | bruce@brucewhitephotography.net
34 Crane Street Caldwell, NJ, 07006 United States |
IIM version | 4 |