id: 120829
accession number: 1941.554
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Portrait of a Woman in Blue, c. 1700. Peter Cross (British, c. 1645–1724). Watercolor on vellum in original ivory frame; framed: 9.2 x 7.3 cm (3 5/8 x 2 7/8 in.); sight: 8.2 x 6.4 cm (3 1/4 x 2 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Edward B. Greene Collection 1941.554
title: Portrait of a Woman in Blue
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creation date: c. 1700
creation date earliest: 1695
creation date latest: 1705
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creditline: The Edward B. Greene Collection
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culture: England, early 18th Century
technique: watercolor on vellum in original ivory frame
department: European Painting and Sculpture
collection: P - British before 1800
type: Portrait Miniature
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CREATORS
* Peter Cross (British, c. 1645–1724) - artist
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measurements: Framed: 9.2 x 7.3 cm (3 5/8 x 2 7/8 in.); Sight: 8.2 x 6.4 cm (3 1/4 x 2 1/2 in.)
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inscription: signed right: PC [monogram]
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Four Centuries of Miniature Painting
opening date: 1950-01-18T05:00:00
Four Centuries of Miniature Painting. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (January 18-March 19, 1950).
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).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Exhibition of Portrait Miniatures, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, England (1889).', 'opening_date': None}
* {'description': 'Main Gallery Rotation (Gallery 202), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 22, 2008 - January 5, 2009).', 'opening_date': '2008-09-22T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Possibly Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Early of Shaftesbury (1801-1885), Wimborne St. Giles, Dorset, England
date: By 1875
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Sir Francis Cook, 1st Baronet (1817-1901), Richmond, England and Sintra, Portugal, by inheritance to his son, Wyndham Francis Cook
date: By 1889-1901
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Wyndham Francis Cook (1860-1905), London, England, by inheritance to his wife Frederica Evelyn Stillwell Cook
date: 1901-1905
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Frederica Evelyn Stillwell Cook (née Freeland, died 1925), London, England, by inheritance to her son, Humphrey Wyndam Cook
date: 1905-1925
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Humphrey Wyndham Cook (1893–1978), London, England
date: 1925
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(Sale: Christie's London, July 9, 1925, lot 319)
date: July 9, 1925
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(Leo Schidhof (1886-1966), Paris, France, sold to Edward B. Greene)
date: 1925-1928
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Edward B. Greene (1878-1957), Cleveland, OH, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art
date: 1928-1941
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1941-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Burlington Fine Arts Club, and John Lumsden Propert. Exhibition of Portrait Miniatures. London: Printed for the Burlington fine arts club, 1889.
page number: no. 27, pl. XIII
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Propert, J. Lumsden. “The English School of Miniature Art.” The Magazine of Art 14 (1891).
page number: p. 173
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Williamson, George Charles, and Howard Coppuck Levis. Portrait Miniatures: From the Time of Holbein 1531 to That of Sir William Ross 1860: a Handbook for Collectors. London: G. Bell, 1897.
page number: Reproduced: opp. p. 44
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COOK, Wyndham Francis. Catalogue of the Art Collection ... 8, Cadogan Square [Residence of W.F. Cook], Etc. (Vol. 1. [By B. Rackham, H.P. Mitchell and Others. With a Preface by W.F. Cook.]-Vol. 2. Catalogue of the Antiquities, Greek, Etruscan and Roman, in the Collection of the Late Wyndham Francis Cook, Esqre. By Cecil H. Smith and C. Amy Hutton. [With Plates.]). Metchim & Son: [London], 1904.
page number: p. 150, no. 678. Vol. 1
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Christie, Manson & Woods. Important Collection of Objects of Art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. [London]: [Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.], 1925.
page number: lot 319
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Cleveland Museum of Art. Portrait Miniatures; The Edward B. Greene Collection. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1951.
page number: Mentioned: p. 26, no. 10; reproduced: pl. V, no. 10
url: https://archive.org/details/PortraitMiniatures/page/n51
Reynolds, Graham. English Portrait Miniatures. Cambridge, MA : Cambridge University Press, 1988.
page number: Mentioned: p. 84-86
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Korkow, Cory, and Dario Robleto. Disembodied: Portrait Miniatures and Their Contemporary Relatives. 2013.
page number: Mentioned: p.86
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Korkow, Cory, and Jon L. Seydl. British Portrait Miniatures: The Cleveland Museum of Art. 2013.
page number: Cat. no. 20, pp. 108-111
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Burlington Fine Arts Club, and John Lumsden Propert. Exhibition of Portrait Miniatures. London: Printed for the Burlington fine arts club, 1889.
page number: Mentioned: case: XXVIII, no. 27, Reproduced: pl. XIII
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