La Pudeur c. 1843-9

Oil on canvas | 55.5 x 46.4 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 404627

Hermann Winterhalter (1808-91)

Description

This painting, whose title means Modesty, is one of a set of four 'Virtues', the others being La Naïveté (RCIN 404538), Simplicity (RCIN 404782) and L'Innocence (RCIN 406400), painted for Queen Victoria by Hermann Winterhalter, the brother of Franz Xaver Winterhalter.

Provenance

Given to Prince Albert by Queen Victoria at Christmas 1849; recorded in the Prince Consort's Dressing Room at Buckingham Palace in 1868
People involved

Creator(s)

Search the collection Hermann Winterhalter (1808-91)
(artist)

Acquirer(s)

Search the collection View the person page Prince Albert, Prince Consort (1819-61)
Physical properties

Medium and techniques

Oil on canvas

oil paint, canvas

Measurements

55.5 x 46.4 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)

92.7 x 81.5 x 11.5 cm (frame, external)
Groupings
Category
Paintings
Object type(s)
visual works
paintings
References

Other number(s)

OMV : Millar, O., 1992. The Victorian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, 2 vols, Cambridge – OMV 1040

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