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Hermann Winterhalter (1808-91)
L'Innocence 1845
Oil on canvas | 46.8 x 38.3 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 406400
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This painting is one of a set of four 'Virtues', the others being La Naïveté (RCIN 404538), Simplicity (RCIN 404782) and La Pudeur (RCIN 404627), painted for Queen Victoria by Hermann Winterhalter, the brother of Franz Xaver Winterhalter. The Queen and Prince Albert were in Coburg on 26 August, his actual birthday, so the Queen had already given Albert some of his presents on 28 July, including 'a beautiful head by Hermann Winterhalter, which has been specially painted for Albert'.
Provenance
Given to Prince Albert by Queen Victoria on his birthday, 26th August 1845; recorded in the Prince Consort's Dressing Room at Buckingham Palace in 1868
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Medium and techniques
Oil on canvas
Measurements
46.8 x 38.3 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
83.0 x 74.8 x 7.5 cm (frame, external)
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