Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi, Pointing to Her Children as Her Treasures (Primary Title)

Angelica Kauffman, Swiss, 1741 - 1807, active in England and Italy (Artist)

Educational
ca. 1785
English
oil on canvas
Unframed: 40 × 50 in. (101.6 × 127 cm)
Framed: 45 1/4 × 55 in. (114.94 × 139.7 cm)
75.22
Not on view
Signed on base of column at right: "Angelica Kauffman pinxt"
Adolph D. and Wilkins C. Williams Fund
"Art in Rome in the 18th Century", Philadelphia Museum of Art, February 27 - May 21, 2000; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, June 27 - September 17, 2000

Angelica Kauffman Retrospective: Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf, November 15, 1998 - January 25, 1999; Haus de Kunst, Munich, February 14 - April 15, 1999; Bunder Kunstmuseum, Chur, May 8 - July 11, 1999

"Goethe und die Kunst", Schirm Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, May 21 - August 7, 1994; Kunstammlungen zu Weimar, September 1 - October 20, 1994

Spotlight Loan: Piedmont Arts Association, Martinsville, VA, August 29 - October 31, 1988

Spotlight Loan: Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA, March 23 - May 9, 1988

Spotlight Loan: Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History, Danville, VA, January 4 - March 18, 1988

"German and Austrian Painting of the 18th Century", Smart Gallery, University of Chicago, April 20 - July 11, 1978

"Women Artistis, 1550-1950", Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 21, 1976 - March 13, 1977; University of Texas at Austin, April 12 - June 5, 1977; Carnegie Institute, July 14 - September 4, 1977; Brooklyn Museum of Art, October 4 - November 27, 1977

"Art in the Age of Jefferson", Bayly Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, March - April, 1976

Royal Academy, London, 1786. (No. 86 or 196)

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