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Cornelis Troost

A Young Woman as a Personification of Summer, 1746

Blatt: 394 x 281 mm

Physical Description: Grey and white pastel chalk and brush and dark and light grey ink, on blue mottled paper

Inventory Number: 2899

Object Number: 2899 Z

Status: Can be presented in the study room of the Graphische Sammlung (special opening hours)

Work Data

Basic Information

Title: A Young Woman as a Personification of Summer

Draughtsman

Cornelis Troost

Production Place

Amsterdam

Period Produced

18th century

School

rococo

Object Type

drawing

Physical Description: Grey and white pastel chalk and brush and dark and light grey ink, on blue mottled paper

Material

Technique

Geographic Reference

Netherlandish

Production Reason

Label at the Time of Manufacture: Signiert und datiert unten rechts (mit dunkelgrauer Kreide): C. Troost / 1746 [angeschnitten]

Captions Added Later: Verso mittig bezeichnet (mit Bleistift): 41
Verso links bezeichnet (mit Bleistift): 2899
Verso unten links Stempel des Städelschen Kunstinstituts, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2356)

Watermark

Nicht geprüft

Work Catalogues

Niemeijer 1973.188.97.T

Property and Acquisition

Institution

Städel Museum

Departement

Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline: Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright: Public Domain

Work Content

Motifs and References

Genre

Iconclass

Primary

31D13 adolescent, young woman, maiden
23D43 summer, 'Aestas'; 'Estate' (Ripa)
31D15(+4) adult woman (+ three-quarter view)
23D43(+60) summer, 'Aestas'; 'Estate' (Ripa) (+ allegorical or symbolical representation of seasons and months)
5(+11) Abstract Ideas and Concepts (+ abstract concept represented by female figure)