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Study for Portrait of Nell Gwyn as Diana

Study for Portrait of Nell Gwyn as Diana

Artist/Maker (Dutch, active in England, 1618–1680)
Date1675–80
MediumPen and gray ink and wash over lead pencil, squared with red chalk, on paper
DimensionsImage: 4 3/4 × 7 3/8 in. (12.1 × 18.7 cm)
Sheet: 4 13/16 × 7 3/8 in. (12.2 × 18.7 cm)
Credit LineAnonymous Gift in memory of Jessie B. Trefethen
Object number1982.103.5
Status
Not on view
More Information
Nell Gwynn well deserved her stage name of "pretty witty Nell", as she rose from a job as an orange-seller to become a celebrated comedy actress and then mistress of King Charles II. The drawing is the preparatory study for a painting, now lost, but known through an engraving, of Gwynn in the guise of the goddess Diana.
Exhibition History
European Master Drawings from the Allen Memorial Art Museum
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (October 29, 2002 - June 9, 2003 )
On Line: European Drawings, 16th-19th Centuries
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 18, 2007 - January 27, 2008 )
Out of Albion: British Art from the Allen Memorial Art Museum
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 26, 2008 - December 23, 2008 )
Picturing the Land
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (February 9, 2021 - August 13, 2021 )
Collections
  • European
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