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Description: | Signed: yes Description: Johann Heinrich Tischbein the elder (b. 1722) became court painter to Wilhelm VIII, Landgraf of Hessen-Kassel, at Kassel in 1751; he died there in 1789. His painting of A Young Woman Painting was acquired by Archibald McLellan as a picture by the French artist François Boucher, and it was still catalogued under his name in the museum's catalogue of 1935. The signature revealing the real author was discovered during cleaning of the painting in 1942-43. Its subject is not only allegorical, but testifies to a growing fashion for women turning to painting in the eighteenth century. | Subjects: | figure; everyday life; allegory (painting) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Tischbein, Johann Heinrich, I (German painter and printmaker, 1722-1789) Æ Previously attributed to Boucher, François (French painter, engraver, and designer, 1703-1770) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8804... | Go to resource |
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