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| Keywords: Henri Toutin - Portrait of Lady Venetia Digby - Walters 44177.jpg Venetia Stanley Lady Digby died in 1633 eight years after marrying Sir Kelm Digby at the age of 21 This portrait signed and dated 1637 was completed after her death and is based on an earlier miniature painted in opaque watercolor by Peter Oliver 1594-1648 An inscription in Latin on the back describes the grief felt by her husband He tries to snatch a ghost from the funeral pyre and fights a battle with death exhausting the skills of the artists Everywhere he searches for thee - O the bitterness of it - on piece of metal Digby was in Paris in 1635-36 and probably commissioned the piece at that time The stunning frame by Gilles Légaré d 1663 exemplifies a further aspect of French enamel work of the period Henri Toutin was the first artist to exploit a new technique for painting with enamel developed by his father in 1632 that permitted both more refined detail and translucent colors on a white ground suggesting the qualities of a delicate watercolor portrait See most recently D Scarisbeck Portrait Jewels Opulence Intimacy from the Medici to the Romanovs 2011 p 106 ill 1637 Baroque painted enamel on gold cm 12 5 8 3 accession number 44 177 18028 Horace Walpole Dowager Countess Waldegrave Earl Waldegrave Strawberry Hill Sale May 6 1842 Sir Anthony Rothschild Lady Battersea Sir George Lindsay Holford Sale Holford Auction Christies London July 13-14 1927 Christie Manson and Woods no 129 Henry Walters city Baltimore Acquired by Henry Walters 1927 Signed verso H Toutin fecit 1637 Russian Enamels The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1996-1997 Small Northern European Portraits from The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore National Gallery of Art Washington 2000 Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill Yale Center for British Art New Haven; Victoria and Albert Museum London 2009-2010 place of origin Blois France Walters Art Museum license derivative works Henri Toutin - Portrait of Lady Venetia Digby - Walters 44177 cropped jpg Baroque paintings in the Walters Art Museum Henri Toutin Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Portrait miniatures in the Walters Art Museum 1630s jewellery | ||||
