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| Keywords: Pietro Rotari - Young Russian Woman - Walters 372377.jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Q18749351 Creator Pietro Antonio Rotari This painting of a young woman with her head slightly tilted back parted lips low cut dress and gaze that meets that of the beholder is a study in the coy sensuality so often encountered in French rococo art of the period The painting lacks the formality of a commissioned portrait and is rather a study of female seductiveness meant for a male patron Rotari worked in his native Verona before moving to Vienna and Dresden and finally became court painter to Empress Elizabeth of Russia in 1756 This work is from his time in St Petersburg Zeri Italian paintings in the Walters Art Gallery 456 568-569 ca 1756 1762 Baroque Oil on canvas Painted surface cm 44 5 34 1 accession number 37 2377 26529 Kotchoubey Paris date and mode of acquisition unknown Mrs Julius Levy Baltimore prior to 1925 mode of acquisition unknown Philip B Perlman Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Bequest of Philip B Perlman 1960 Transcription In crayon on the stretcher P Rotari; Transcription In ink on the reverse of the canvas B A K; Label Undecipherable label and red wax customs seal place of origin St Petersburg Russia Walters Art Museum license 2D Baroque paintings in the Walters Art Museum Girls by Rotari Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
