Ignazio Pio Vittoriano Campana
Portrait of a Woman

CultureItalian
Titles
  • Portrait of a Woman
Datec. 1785
MediumWatercolor on ivory, ormolu, and glass Template for mount in accession file.
DimensionsOverall: 4 5/8 × 4 3/4 in. (11.7 × 12.1 cm)
Credit LineThe Rienzi Collection, bequest of Caroline A. Ross
Object number2005.1609
Not on view

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Department
Rienzi
Provenance[Judy & Brian Harden Antiques, Cheltenham, U.K.]; purchased by Caroline Ross,October 10, 2001; bequeathed to MFAH, 2005.
Exhibition History"Love Tokens: Portrait Miniatures from the Caroline A. Ross Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Alice Pratt Brown Gallery and Rienzi; Drawing Room, November 3, 2007-March 3, 2008.

“Comfort and the Eighteenth-Century Interior,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Rienzi, September 13, 2014–February 1, 2015.

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