Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796, Italian, active in Britain (1758–70; 1777-80s)
Title:
Servants Washing a Deer
Date:
ca. 1775
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
12 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches (31.8 x 28.6 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B2009.12.2
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
costume | mirrors | genre subject | interior | boy | servants
Associated Places:
Caribbean
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Historias Afro-Atlanticas (Instituto Tomie Ohtake, 2018-06-28 - 2018-10-21)
Publications:
Mia L. Bagneris, Colouring the Caribbean : Race and the Art of Agostino Brunias, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2018, pp. 97, 128, fig. 20, NJ18.B84652 B34 2018 (YCBA)

Jessica Striebel MacLean, Sheltering Colonialism : The Archaelogy of a House, Household, and White Creole Masculinity at the 18th Century Little Bay Plantation, Montserrat, West Indies [PhD Dissertation, Boston University], Boston, Massachusetts, 2015, pp. 222, 224, fig. 5.31, Available online via ProQuest Dissertation and Theses
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:54266