Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd
Angelica Kauffman
Hebe
Oil on canvas
c.1801
50 ⅞ x 40 ⅜ inches; 1294 x 1026 mm
description
This imposing late painting by Angelica Kauffman is a powerful work of European neo-classicism, demonstrating Kauffman’s inventiveness as a designer and facility as a painter. Left unfinished in Kauffman’s Roman studio at her death, where it is first recorded in a posthumous inventory, this important work is little known, having remained in the same family collection since the mid-nineteenth century.