The Comtesse d'Egmont Pignatelli in Spanish costume

Roslin, Alexander (1718-1793)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1763
Height:
136.2 cm  (53 5/8 in.)
Width:
103.2 cm  (40 5/8 in.)
with frame: 180.34 x 142.24 cm
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • Minneapolis Institute of Art
    [Museum inv. no.: 2006.33]

Description

The comtesse Septimanie d’Egmont Pignatelli (1740–73), depicted here at age twenty-three. The comtesse sponsored many leading figures of the Enlightenment, including Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Swedish-born Alexander Roslin painted the comtesse in a fashionable Spanish-style gown, a reference to her husband’s ancestry. The guitar at her side (she was a gifted player) continues the Spanish theme.

People as subjects

Egmont, Septimanie de Vignerot du Plessis de Richelieu, comtesse (1740-1773)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Guitar [3237]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

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RIdIM record id

4621