William Hogarth is best known for his moralising and satirical narrative prints and paintings. In his day he was also a renowned portraitist. Initially, the majority of his subjects were from the aristocracy, but later, from 1740, he concentrated on well-off members of the middle class. At the time this was a new direction in English portraiture.As an innovator in this respect and as an observer of the society of his era, in this work Hogarth achieves a pointed depiction of the features and spirit of a woman in a white silk dress with a reflective silvery sheen. Her pose is an indication of her rising social class. The delicate and spontaneous brushwork is typical of the Rococo.
| Artist |
William Hogarth
RKD
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| Title | Portrait of a Young Woman |
| Date | ca. 1740 |
| Period | 18th century |
| Location | London TGN |
| Collection | paintings AAT |
| Object type | oil paintings (visual works) AAT |
| Inventory number | 1912-F |
| Acquisition credit |
gift
The Friends of the Museum Ghent 1912 |
| Current whereabouts | Work on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1912-F |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/575/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
300015637
portraits
AAT
300189808 figures (representations) AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
31A72
female sex; woman
Iconclass
31B6213 looking sideways Iconclass 31D15 adult woman Iconclass 41D211 dress, gown Iconclass 41D2661 necklace Iconclass 41D26611 pearl; pearl necklace Iconclass 41D2663 ear-rings Iconclass 47H13 silk (textile) Iconclass 61B11 anonymous historical person portrayed Iconclass 61B111 anonymous historical person portrayed alone Iconclass 61BB2 historical persons - BB - woman Iconclass |
| School / Style | Rococo AAT |
| Museum van Schoone Kunsten : Catalogus ; Oude Meesters, Schilderstukken, teekeningen, plaatsneden (met geschiedkundig overzicht) / Maurice Dupuis, Georges Charles Nicolas Marie Hulin de Loo, Fritz Van Loo. - Gent : Drukkerij F. De Vos, 1938 ; Gent : Stad Gent, 1938 (p. 73) |
| Tout l'oeuvre peint de Hogarth / Gabriel Mandel, Pierre Georgel. - Paris : Flammarion, 1978 (nr. 105) |
| William Hogarth [1969] / Françoise Popelier. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.] (p. 344, nr. 762) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent / Robert Hoozee. - Brussel : Ministerie van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap, 1988 (p. 67) |
| Chefs-d'oeuvre du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand (exposition itinérante 'Quarante chefs-d'oeuvre du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand' Bruxelles, Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 12 février - 6 mars 1949 ; Liège, 12 mars - 3 avril 1949 ; Luxembourg, 9 avril - 1 mai 1949 ; Lille, 14 mai - 12 juin 1949) / Georges Chabot, Paul Eeckhout. - Bruxelles : Editions de la Connaissance, 1949 (p. 3, nr. 31) |
| Guide du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand, Orné de 52 reproductions de tableaux : Extrait du guide illustré de Gand / Jos. Casier. - Gand : Anc. Maison d'édition Vanderpoorten, 1949 (p. 9, 25) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent = Museum of Fine Arts Ghent / Claudie De Guillebon, Jacques Ostier, Robert Hoozee, Monique Tahon-Vanroose. - Parijs : Association des Amis de "Musées 2000", 1989 (p. 65 (ill. 139)) |
| Hogarth / Mark Hallett, Lawrence Gowing. - London : Phaidon Press, 2000 (p. 160-163) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Catalogus schilderkunst ; Deel I: 14de - 18de eeuw ; Deel II: 19de - 20ste eeuw / Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Bruno Fornari, Ruth Monteyne. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2007 (dl. I, p. 108-109 (ill.)) |
| William Hogarth : A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings / Elizabeth Einberg. - New Haven-Connecticut : Yale University Press, 2016 (p. 198, cat. 119) |
| Hogarth, France and British Art : The rise of the arts in 18th-century Britain / Robin Simon. - Richmond : Hogarth Arts, 2007 (p. 170) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : De collectie (tentoonstelling vanaf 21 maart 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2021 |
| Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand : La Collection (exposition dès le 21 mars 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Gand : Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand, 2021 |
| onder vrienden : 225 jaar verzamelaars rond het Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent (tentoonstelling Gent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 25.11.2023 - 28.04.2024) / Johan De Smet, Frederica Van Dam, Willy Van der Gucht, Manfred Sellink. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2023 ; Gent : De Vrienden van het Museum, 2023 (p. 60, cat. 70 (ill.)) |
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