Johan Joseph Zoffany, 1733–1810, German, active in Britain (from 1760)
Title:
Self-Portrait with His Daughter Maria Theresa, James Cervetto, and Giacobbe Cervetto
Date:
ca. 1780
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
76 x 64 3/4 inches (193 x 164.5 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.88
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
daughter | son | girl | father | musician | artist | painter | interior | family | music | men | canvas | conversation piece | group portrait | self-portrait | painting (visual work) | brushes | palette | cello | costume | easel | chairs | portrait
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Art and Music in Britain: Four Encounters, 1730-1900 (Yale Center for British Art, 2006-10-05 - 2006-12-31)The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18)
Publications:
Timothy J. Barringer, Art & music in Britain : four encounters, 1730-1900, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2006, pp. 16, 17, V 1699 (YCBA)Timothy J. Barringer, Art & music in Britain, four encounters, 1730-1900 (exhibition and label text) , New Haven, 2006, [p.. 38], V 1699:1 (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 268-269, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)Dr. Kenneth Garlick, The Bicentennial Exhibition at the Royal Academy, Apollo, v. 89, no. 84, February 1969, p. 92, A1 A54 + (YCBA)Catherine M. Gordon, British paintings Hogarth to Turner, Frederick Warne, London, 1981, p. 79, ND466 .G67 (YCBA)Deborah J, Johnson, Seeing and beyond : essays on eighteenth- to twenty-first century art in honor of Kermit S. Champa, Peter Lang, New York, 2005, pp. 31-32, fn 2, N6350 .S397X 2005 (LC) (LSF)Richard D. Leppert, Music and image, domesticity, ideology, and socio-cultural formation in eighteenth-century England , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] New York, 1988, pp. 138-9, no. 52, ML3795 L36 1988 (YCBA)Brenda Neece, The Cello in Britain, A Technical and Social History , The Galpin Society Journal, vol. 56, Galpin Society, June 2003, pp. 104-105, 107, fig. 2.40, http://www.jstor.org/stable/30044410J. H. Plumb, The pursuit of happiness : a view of life in Georgian England : an exhibition selected from the Paul Mellon collection, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, pp. 46, 100, no. 75, N6766 Y34 1977 (YCBA)Martin Postle, Johan Zoffany, RA : Society Observed, , Yale University Press, New Haven, 2011, pp. 37, 169, fig. 31, NJ18 Z68 + A12 2011 Oversize (YCBA)William L. Pressly, Genius Unveiled, the self-portraits of Johan Zoffany , Art Bulletin, vol. 69, College Art Association of America, Inc., New York, NY, March 1987, pp. 98-99, fig no. 13, N11 C4 69 OVERSIZERoyal Academy of Arts Bicentenary exhibition, 1768-1968, catalogue [of an exhibition held on] 14 December 1968-2 March 1969. , Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1968, p. 37, N6764 R69 (YCBA) Illustration volume; YCBA does not hold text voukme in hard copy. For Text, see Fiche B223 (YCBA)Royal Academy of Arts bicentenary exhibition, 1768-1968, catalogue [of an exhibition held on] 14 December 1968-2 March 1969. , Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1968, Fiche # 1, p, 44; fiche # 4, p. 37, no. 46, illus p. 37, Fiche B223 (YCBA) YCBA also holds the illustration volume in hard copy: See N6764 .R69 (YCBA)Penelope Treadwell, Johan Zoffany : Artist and Adventurer, , Paul Holberton Publishing, London, 2009, pp. 317-9, NJ18 Z68 T74 2009 (YCBA)Ellis Waterhouse, Dictionary of British 18th Century Painters in Oils and Crayons, Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1981, p. 433, ND466 +.W38 Oversize (YCBA)Mary Webster, Johan Zoffany, 1733-1810, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2011, pp.384,402-..., figs. 286, 302,, NJ18 Z68 W43 2011 + (YCBA)Zoffany and his Condoms, Eighteenth Century Life, vol. 37, Spring 2013, p, 108, Available Online (ORBIS) Hard copy is available at Lewis Walpole Library