Portrait of a lady with a dog
Fine Arts
Inventory number
2021.6.16.2.FA.GR.C1785.FRDescription
Pastel drawing portrait of a woman holding a small barbet dog. The lady is represented sitting in a red chair in a blue dress with elbow length sleeves trimmed with ruffled lace. She is wearing a fine semi transparent lace fichu on her shoulders, hiding the square neckline of her gown.The term barbet became throughout centuries a generic name for a dog with a long, curly, woolly coat. Barbets are best known for being a waterfowl retriever in the marshes, wetlands, and estuaries of France. Between the late 18th to early 19th centuries, the same dog was known as the barbet in France, the barbone in Italy, and the Pudel in Germany, for almost a hundred years the barbets and poodles were considered the same breed, which is wrong, because the poodles are a more younger variety of the barbet breed.
Materials
Pastel on paperCanvas
Wood
Glass
Origin
circa 1785 FranceDimensions
Length : 65.5 cmHeight : 78 cm