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Artemisia Gentileschi’s ‘Susanna and the elders’ painted for Henrietta Maria
10/2023 | 1447 | 165
Pages: 1053–73
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Izat, Adelaide (Izat, Adelaide)
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Munz, Niko (Munz, Niko)
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1. The painting illustrated in Fig.3, before conservation treatment and prior to structural treatment to remove non-original additions.
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10. Infra-red reflectography of Fig.1, showing former non-original canvas extension.
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11. Detail of Fig.10, showing a pinnacle or water-jet and possible part of a wall.
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12. Detail of Fig.10, showing a scroll-like form above the satyr’s head.
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13. Birth of St John the Baptist, by Artemisia Gentileschi. c.1635. Oil on canvas, 184 by 258 cm. (© NPL - DeA Picture Library; G. Dagli Orti; Bridgeman Images; Museo del Prado, Madrid).
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14. David and Goliath, by Orazio Gentileschi. c.1610–12. Oil on canvas, 173 by 142 cm. (Palazzo Spada, Rome; Bridgeman Images).
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15–17: Details of Fig.8 outlined in orange, overlaid with the corresponding lines in green from Fig.3 in three positions: (Fig.15) showing the match around the shoulder and back with the orange dots following where the Royal Collection pentiment lines up with Susanna’s back in the Burghley House painting; (Fig.16) shifted to show the match of the shoulder, arm and hand; and (Fig.17) lining up the Royal Collection knee tracing over the visible pentiment (shown with green dashed lines) of Susanna’s knee in the Burghley House painting.
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18. Detail of Fig.19 outlined in blue overlaid with a tracing in orange from Fig.3.
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19. St Catherine of Alexandria, by Artemisia Gentileschi. c.1627–30?. Oil on canvas, 90 by 75.4 cm. (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm; photograph © Christie’s Images; Bridgeman Images).
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2. Self-portrait as the Allegory of Painting, by Artemisia Gentileschi. c.1638–39?. Oil on canvas, 96.8 by 75.2 cm. (© His Majesty King Charles III, 2023; Royal Collection Trust).
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20. Detail of Fig.13, showing the midwife outlined in green, overlaid with an inverted tracing in orange of the right-hand elder in Fig.3.
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21. Detail of Fig.3, showing Susanna’s raised foot with pentiment and early drawing line visible in the white drapery.
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22. Bathsheba at her bath, attributed to Artemisia Gentileschi. c.1640– 45. Oil on canvas, 288 by 228 cm. (Private collection).
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23. Detail of a design for a painted vertical panel with grotesque ornament, by Inigo Jones, showing Henrietta Maria’s cipher. 1630s. Pen, ink and wash on paper. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
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24. Design for a chimneypiece and overmantel for the Queen’s House, Greenwich, by Inigo Jones. c.1637. Pen, ink and wash on paper, 19.3 by 29.5 cm. (Royal Institute of British Architects, London).
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25. Detail of Fig.10, showing carbon-based markings to denote positioning.
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26. X-radiograph of Fig.7, showing the hooded reserve left for the elders (showing dark) against the sky, similar in technique and handling to the early reserve left for the elders and visible in Fig.9.
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27. X-radiograph of Fig.14, showing the broad sweeping contour around the shoulder to lay in David’s form and echoing in style and technique the preliminary placing of Susanna’s outline as seen in Fig.9.
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28. Detail of Fig.13, showing the grid-like craquelure resulting from the relatively open weave of the canvas substrate.
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29. Detail of Fig.3, showing the wider craquelure resulting from the finer-woven canvas.
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3. Susanna and the elders, by Artemisia Gentileschi. 1638–39. Oil on canvas, 188.9 by 143.2 cm. (after structural treatment to remove non-original additions). (© His Majesty King Charles III, 2023; Royal Collection Trust).
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30. Paint cross section of Fig.3, from the area to the right of Susanna’s lower foot.
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31. Paint cross section of Fig.3, taken from the right edge in the elder’s green brocade .
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32. Paint cross section of Fig.3, from the left side of the sky; the warm red preparatory layer is absent from this sample but it shows the lower pale brown preliminary layer that was used under much of the sky area, followed by a bright blue layer containing indigo and lead white. The discoloured smalt layer lies above this.
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33. Paint cross section of Fig.3, from the sky area above the elder’s head.
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34. Paint cross section of Fig.3, taken from a shadow area of Susanna’s hip with some reflected light, showing the thick preparatory layer containing red ochre, followed by the darker brown underpaint for the flesh tones, and finally the bright, densely encrusted aggregates of lead-tin-antinomy yellow near the top.
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4. Detail of the reverse of Fig.3, showing ‘CR’ brand.
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5. The Queen’s Bedchamber, Kensington Palace, by Richard Cattermole. c.1818. Watercolour and bodycolour on paper, 20.2 by 26.3 cm. (© His Majesty King Charles III, 2023; Royal Collection Trust).
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6. Photograph of the painting illustrated in Fig.3, from the inventory ‘Pictures in the Royal Collections’, by Richard Redgrave (29th May 1862). (© His Majesty King Charles III, 2023; Royal Library, Royal Collection Trust).
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7. Susanna and the elders, by Artemisia Gentileschi. 1610. Oil on canvas, 170 by 119 cm. (Schloss Weissenstein, Pommersfelden; Scala, Florence).
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8. Susanna and the elders, by Artemisia Gentileschi. 1622. Oil on canvas, 162.5 by 121.9 cm. (Burghley House, Stamford; Bridgeman Images).
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9. X-radiography of Fig.3.
Article
‘An Antiquity of Piety’
11/2022 | 1436 | 164
Pages: 1078-1087
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Marsden, Jonathan (Marsden, Jonathan)
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6. Cimon and Pero, by Sebald Beham. 1544. Engraving, 7.1 by 4.8 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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8. Cleopatra, by Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi, known as Antico. c.1525. Bronze with gilding, height 64.4 cm. (Photograph © 2022 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).
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9. Ariadne, by Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi, known as Antico. c.1520–22. Bronze with gilding and silver inlays, height 50 cm. (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; KHM-Museumsverbad).
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1. Pietas. North Italian, probably early sixteenth century. Bronze, height 50.8 cm. (Photograph Royal Collection Trust / © His Majesty King Charles III 2022).
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10. The back of the bust illustrated in Fig.1.
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11. The back of the bust illustrated in Fig.4.
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12. Detail of the bust illustrated in Fig.1, showing the top of the head.
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13. Detail of the bust illustrated in Fig. 4, showing the top of the head.
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2. The bust illustrated in Fig.1 on display in the Privy Chamber, Kensington Palace, London. (© Historic Royal Palaces).
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3. Detail of the bust illustrated in Fig.1, showing the flange along the truncation. (Photograph Jonathan Marsden).
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4. Cinamon. North Italian, probably early sixteenth century. Bronze, height 57 cm. (Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich; photograph Bastian Krack).
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5. Cimon and Pero (Roman Charity). North Italian, sixteenth century. Bronze, diameter 6.35 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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7. Detail of the bust illustrated in Fig.1, showing the condition of the surface.
Article
Jan van Belcamp in London: new documents and perspectives
06/2022 | 1431 | 164
Pages: 558-567
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Davies, Justin (Davies, Justin)
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Innes-Mulraine, James (Innes-Mulraine, James)
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1. Detail of Fig.6, showing the figures painted by Jan van Belcamp.
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2. Anne of Denmark and a groom, by Paul van Somer. 1617. Oil on canvas, 265.5 by 209 cm. (Royal Collection Trust; © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2022).
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3. Anne of Denmark, by Jan van Belcamp after Paul van Somer. 1630–39. Oil on canvas, 247.2 by 144.4 cm. (Royal Collection Trust; © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2022).
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4. Henrietta Maria, by an unknown artist, the background by Hendrik van Steenwyck. c.1635. Oil on canvas, 215.9 cm by 135.2 cm. (National Portrait Gallery, London).
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5. Louis XIII, by Jan van Belcamp, 1636. Oil on canvas, 201.6 by 122.6 cm. (Royal Collection Trust; © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2022).
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6. A view of Greenwich with Charles I and Henrietta Maria among a group of courtiers, by Adriaen van Stalbemt and Jan van Belcamp. c.1632. Oil on canvas, 83.5 by 107 cm. (Royal Collection Trust; © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2022).
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7. Henrietta Maria, by Jan van Belcamp and Hendrick van Steenwyck the Younger. 1637. Oil on panel, 51 by 44.5 cm. (Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden).
Exhibition Review
Charles I: King and Collector
04/2018 | 1381 | 160
Pages: 277-282
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Penny, Nicholas (Penny, Nicholas)
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1. Charles I in the hunting field, by Anthony van Dyck. c.1636. Canvas, 266 by 207 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
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3. The miraculous draft of fi shes, Mortlake tapestry after Raphael, with borders designed by Francis Cleyn. c.1639–40. Wool, silk and gilt thread, 530 by 580 cm. (Mobilier national, Paris).
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4. Detail of Fig.3.
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5. The conversion of St Paul, by Palma Giovane. c.1590–95. Canvas, 207 by 337 cm. (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid).
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6. St George and the Dragon, by Peter Oliver (after Raphael). 1628. Bodycolour and gold paint on vellum, 22 by 16.5 cm. (Royal Collection / © HM Queen Elizabeth II).
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7. The toilet of Venus, by Guido Reni. c.1620–25. Canvas, 281.9 by 205.7 cm. (National Gallery, London).
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9. Installation view of Charles I: King and Collector at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, showing Charles I, by François Dieussart (1636; Arundel Castle) and Charles I in three positions, by Anthony van Dyck (1635–36; The Royal Collection; photograph Royal Academy of Arts, London).
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2. Claudius, Roman, AD43–45. Sardonyx cameo, 20.5 by 16 cm. (Royal Collection / © HM Queen Elizabeth II).
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8. Aphrodite (‘The crouching Venus’). Roman, second century AD. Marble, height 119 cm. (The Royal Collection / © HM Queen Elizabeth II.)
Book Review
Abraham van der Doort's Catalogue of the Collections of Charles I. The Thirty-Seventh Volume of The Walpole Society, 1958-60
06/1961 | 699 | 103
Pages: 287
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Waterhouse, Ellis K. (Waterhouse, Ellis K.; Waterhouse, Ellis Kirkham; Waterhouse, E. K.; W., E. K.; Waterhouse, Ellis)
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Abraham van der Doort's Catalogue of the Collections of Charles I. The Thirty-Seventh Volume of The Walpole Society, 1958-60 | author: Millar, Oliver
Article
Van der Doort's Lists of the Frizell and Nonsuch Palace Pictures in the Royal Collection
09/1947 | 534 | 89
Pages: 247-250
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Ogden, Henry (Ogden, Henry)
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Ogden, Margaret (Ogden, Margaret)
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Short Notice
Two Recent Additions to the National Portrait Gallery
06/1911 | 99 | 19
Pages: 162-164
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Holmes, Charles John (Holmes, Charles John; Holmes, C. J.; H., C. J.; Holmes, Charles J.; Holmes, Charles; Holmes, Charles)
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Milner, James D. (Milner, James D.; Milner, J. D.)
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(C) Engraving of A. van der Doort by Valentine Green, 1776, after a Drawing by Farington. Two Recent Additions to the National Portrait Gallery Portraits of Abraham van der Doort
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(D) Engraving of A. van der Doort by Chambers, 1778, "From the Original at Houghton". Two Recent Additions to the National Portrait Gallery Portraits of Abraham van der Doort
Western art unattributed:
(A) Portrait of A. van der Doort, Dutch school, National Portrait Gallery.
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(B) Portrait of A. van der Doort, Dutch school, Hermitage Collection, S. Petersburg.