Oil painting

Museum number:
17-658
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
7-812 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.100DL
Description:
St. Barbara with tower (her attribute) in hands; gold-trimmed red robe; Italian landscape in background; oil on panel; in black and gold-painted wood and plaster frame with arch at top.
Donor:
unknown
Verbatim coll. place:
According to Larry Dinnean (formerly curator of University Art Museum, now curator at Bancroft Library November 1976), this was painted ca. 1870-80, probably in Paris or Munich.
Collection date:
before 1922
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Oil paintings (visual works)
Accession date:
August 1922
Department:
Drawings and paintings
Dimensions:
height 45 centimeters, width 25 centimeters, width 27 centimeters, and height 12.3 centimeters
Title:
untitled (Title Subject)
Comment:
Black and gold-painted wood and plaster frame with arch at top. Pastiche of Flemish and Italian schools. Meant to imitate much earlier painting style. The medium (oil rather than tempera), the even crackature and the mixture of styles indicates a late copy.
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Oil painting, accession number 17-658, described as St. Barbara with tower (her attribute) in hands; gold-trimmed red robe; Italian landscape in background; oil on panel; in black and gold-painted wood and plaster frame with arch at top.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Oil painting, accession number 17-658, described as St. Barbara with tower (her attribute) in hands; gold-trimmed red robe; Italian landscape in background; oil on panel; in black and gold-painted wood and plaster frame with arch at top.

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