id: 120829 accession number: 1941.554 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1941.554 updated: 2025-02-09 00:43:41.883000 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1700 creation date earliest: 1695 creation date latest: 1705 current location: creditline: The Edward B. Greene Collection copyright: --- 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 find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Peter Cross (British, c. 1645–1724) - artist --- 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.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: signed right: PC [monogram] translation: remark: --- 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). --- 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'} --- PROVENANCE Possibly Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Early of Shaftesbury (1801-1885), Wimborne St. Giles, Dorset, England date: By 1875 footnotes: citations: Sir Francis Cook, 1st Baronet (1817-1901), Richmond, England and Sintra, Portugal, by inheritance to his son, Wyndham Francis Cook date: By 1889-1901 footnotes: citations: Wyndham Francis Cook (1860-1905), London, England, by inheritance to his wife Frederica Evelyn Stillwell Cook date: 1901-1905 footnotes: citations: Frederica Evelyn Stillwell Cook (née Freeland, died 1925), London, England, by inheritance to her son, Humphrey Wyndam Cook date: 1905-1925 footnotes: citations: Humphrey Wyndham Cook (1893–1978), London, England date: 1925 footnotes: citations: (Sale: Christie's London, July 9, 1925, lot 319) date: July 9, 1925 footnotes: citations: (Leo Schidhof (1886-1966), Paris, France, sold to Edward B. Greene) date: 1925-1928 footnotes: citations: Edward B. Greene (1878-1957), Cleveland, OH, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1928-1941 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1941- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- 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 url: Propert, J. Lumsden. “The English School of Miniature Art.” The Magazine of Art 14 (1891). page number: p. 173 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: Korkow, Cory, and Dario Robleto. Disembodied: Portrait Miniatures and Their Contemporary Relatives. 2013. page number: Mentioned: p.86 url: Korkow, Cory, and Jon L. Seydl. British Portrait Miniatures: The Cleveland Museum of Art. 2013. page number: Cat. no. 20, pp. 108-111 url: 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 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1941.554/1941.554_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1941.554/1941.554_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1941.554/1941.554_full.tif