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C1784
Cleone
Artist:
Angelica Kauffman (1741 - 1807)
Superb stipple engraving printed in sepia by the master of this technique Francesco Bartolozzi. Cleone is sitting by her child ; ever whom she hath form’d a little lower of shrubs and branches from a tree. Cleone was the Naiad-nymph … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Cleone
Date:
C1784
Artist:
Angelica Kauffman (1741 - 1807)
Engraver:
F. Bartolozzi
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Stipple engraving printed in bistre.
Image Size:
265mm
x 315mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1784
Description:
Superb stipple engraving printed in sepia by the master of this technique Francesco Bartolozzi.
Cleone is sitting by her child ; ever whom she hath form’d a little lower of shrubs and branches from a tree.
Cleone was the Naiad-nymph of the spring, well or fountain of the town of Cleonae in Argos, southern Greece. She was a daughter of the river Asopos.
Biography:
Maria Anna Angelika Kauffmann (1741-1807)
Kauffman was a Swiss Neoclassical painter who had a successful career in London and Rome. Remembered primarily as a history painter, Kauffmann was a skilled portraitist, landscape and decoration painter. She was one of the two female founding members of the Royal Academy in London in 1768.
