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Hermann Winterhalter (1808-91)
Simplicity 1843
Oil on canvas | 46.3 x 38.0 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 404782
Hermann Winterhalter (1808-91)
Simplicity 1843
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This painting is one of a set of four 'Virtues', the others being La Naïveté (RCIN 404538), L'Innocence (RCIN 406400) and La Pudeur (RCIN 404627), painted for Queen Victoria by Hermann Winterhalter, the brother of Franz Xaver Winterhalter. Queen Victoria described it as a 'very pretty painting' in her Journal.
Provenance
Given to Prince Albert by Queen Victoria on 24th December 1843; recorded in the Prince Consort's Dressing Room at Buckingham Palace in 1868
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Medium and techniques
Oil on canvas
Measurements
46.3 x 38.0 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
81.9 x 73.5 x 8.9 cm (frame, external)
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Alternative title(s)
"La Simplicité"
