Pieter van Bleeck, 1700–1764, Dutch, active in Britain (from 1723)
Title:
Susannah Maria Cibber (née Arne) as Cordelia
Date:
ca. 1755
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
15 1/16 x 20 9/16 inches (38.3 x 52.2 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1976.7.8
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
literary theme | men | women | theater (discipline) | running | performance | actors | wind | night | costume | King Lear, play by William Shakespeare
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Shakespeare and British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-04-23 - 1981-07-05)
Publications:
Geoffrey Ashton, Shakespeare and British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1981, pp. 4-5, no. 14, PR2933 Y25 A74 c.1 (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 24-25, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)