id: 119017
accession number: 1940.1203
share license status: CC0
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1940.1203
updated: 2024-03-26 01:57:39.762000
A Woman Putting Flowers in Her Hair, c. 1710. Rosalba Carriera (Italian, 1675–1757). Watercolor on ivory in a tortoiseshell pique-point frame; framed: 10.6 x 12.7 cm (4 3/16 x 5 in.); unframed: 8.6 x 10.5 cm (3 3/8 x 4 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Edward B. Greene Collection 1940.1203
title: A Woman Putting Flowers in Her Hair
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creation date: c. 1710
creation date earliest: 1705
creation date latest: 1715
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creditline: The Edward B. Greene Collection
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culture: Italy, 18th century
technique: watercolor on ivory in a tortoiseshell pique-point frame
department: European Painting and Sculpture
collection: P - Italian 18th Century
type: Portrait Miniature
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CREATORS
* Rosalba Carriera (Italian, 1675–1757) - artist
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measurements: Framed: 10.6 x 12.7 cm (4 3/16 x 5 in.); Unframed: 8.6 x 10.5 cm (3 3/8 x 4 1/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Portraiture: The Image of the Individual
opening date: 1983-11-22T05:00:00
Portraiture: The Image of the Individual. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 22, 1983-January 22, 1984).
title: Intimate Images: Portrait Miniatures from Europe and America
opening date: 1993-03-26T04:00:00
Intimate Images: Portrait Miniatures from Europe and America. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 26-October 17, 1993).
title: Disembodied: Portrait Minatures and their Contemporary Relatives
opening date: 2013-11-10T00:00:00
Disembodied: Portrait Minatures and their Contemporary Relatives. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 10, 2013-February 16, 2014).
title: By Her Hand: Artemisia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italy, 1500–1800
opening date: 2021-09-30T04:00:00
By Her Hand: Artemisia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italy, 1500–1800. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT (organizer) (September 30, 2021-January 9, 2022); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (February 6-May 29, 2022).
title: Making Her Mark: A History of Women Artists in Europe, 1400-1800
opening date: 2023-10-01T04:00:00
Making Her Mark: A History of Women Artists in Europe, 1400-1800. The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (co-organizer) (October 1, 2023-January 7, 2024) https://artbma.org/exhibition/making-her-mark-a-history-of-women-artists-in-europe-1400-1800.
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Internationalen Miniaturen-Ausstellung, Albertina, Vienna, Austria (May-June, 1924).', 'opening_date': '1924-05-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Women Artists: 1550-1950, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1976/12/21 - 1977/03/13); The University Art Museum, Austin, TX (1977/04/12 - 1977/06/12); Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA (1977/07/14 - 1977/09/04); The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (1977/10/08 - 1977/11/27).', 'opening_date': '2004-07-09T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Main Gallery Rotation (Gallery 202), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 5, 2009 - April 6, 2009).', 'opening_date': '2009-01-05T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Victor Emanuel Pollak, Vienna, Austria
date: 1924-1938
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(Sale: Sotheby’s, London, November 30, 1938, lot 125)
date: November 30, 1938
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Edward B. Greene (1878-1957), Cleveland ,OH, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art
date: 1938-1940
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1940-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Gesellschaft der Bilder- und Miniaturenfreunde (Vienna, Austria), and Leo Schidlof. Katalog der Internationalen Miniaturen-Ausstellung in der Albertina, Wien, mai-juni, 1924. Wien: Gesellschaft der Bilder- und Miniaturenfreunde, 1924.
page number: cat. no. 133
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Cleveland Museum of Art, and Edward Belden Greene. Portrait Miniatures ; The Edward B. Greene Collection. 1951.
page number: Mentioned: p. 38, cat. 84, p. 21; Reproduced: plate XXXVII
url: https://archive.org/details/PortraitMiniatures
Lister, Raymond, "The Edward B. Greene Collection of Portrait Miniatures", Apollo LV (Jan. 1952).
page number: p. 20
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Harris, Ann Sutherland, and Linda Nochlin. Women Artists, 1550-1950. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1976.
page number: cat. no. 42
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"Review of exhibition Women Artists: 1550-1950 at the Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute", Museologist no. 141 (June 1977).
page number: p. 5
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Sani, Bernardina. 1981. "Pastelli e miniature di Rosalba Carriera nella collezione di Giovanni Guglielmo Pfalz". Itinerari. 133-143.
page number: p. 136, illus. pl. 61a
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Eschwey, Maymie. Portraits in Miniature: An Introductory Guide. Edina, Mn: Alpha editions, 1988.
page number: p. 32
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Carriera, Rosalba, and Bernardina Sani. Rosalba Carriera. Torino: U. Allemandi, 1988.
page number: p. 277, cat no. 17, fig. 15
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Sani, Bernardina, and Rosalba Carriera. Rosalba Carriera: 1673-1757 : maestra del pastello nell'Europa ancien régime. Torino: U. Allemandi, 2007.
page number: p. 71, no. 18
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Arenas, Amelia, and Tetsuo Kinoshita. Efude o totta redi: josei gaka no gohyakunen. Kyōto: Tankōsha, 2008.
page number: pp. 58-9
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Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 196-197
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Gentileschi, Artemisia, Eve Straussman-Pflanzer, Oliver Tostmann, and Sheila Barker. By Her Hand: Artemisia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italy, 1500-1800. Detroit, Michigan : Detroit Institute of Arts, 2021.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 164-165, no. 55
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Oberer, Angela. "The 'White Rose' of Venice." In Rosalba Carriera: Perfection in Pastel edited by Roland Enke and Katja Paul, 43-54. Exh. cat. Dresden: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, 2023
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 44, fig. 1
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Banta, Andaleeb Badiee, Alexa Greist, and Theresa Kutasz Christensen. Making Her Mark: A History of Women Artists in Europe, 1400-1800. Fredericton, New Brunswick : Goose Lane Editions ; Toronto, Ontario : AGO ; Baltimore, Maryland : Baltimore Museum of Art, 2023.
page number: Mentioned, p. 203, cat. 97, p. 204, illus. p. 204
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