Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796, Italian, active in Britain (1758–70; 1777-80s)
Title:
A West Indian Creole Woman Attended by her Black Servant
Date:
ca. 1780
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
12 x 9 7/8 inches (30.5 x 25.1 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.82
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
landscape | genre subject | shawls | servant | women | walking | child | boy | Creole | linen (material) | mountains | tree | skirts (garments)
Associated Places:
West Indies
Currently On View:
Not on view
Publications:
Amanda Michaela Bagneris, Coloring the Caribbean : Agostino Brunias and the Painting of Race in the British West Indes, 1765-1800 [PhD Dissertation, Harvard University], Cambridge, MA, 2009, fig.85, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses GlobalMia L. Bagneris, Colouring the Caribbean : Race and the Art of Agostino Brunias, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2018, p. 195, fig. 51, NJ18.B84652 B34 2018 (YCBA)David Bindman, The Image of the Black in Western Art : From the " Age of Discovery" to the Age of Abolition, , vol. 3, part 3, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2010, pp. 274, 279, 280, fig. 270, N8217.B535 I42 2010+ (YCBA) Citations are to Vol. 3, Part 3Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 46-47, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)Impact Anglais, Hachette Education, , p. 47, (Not at Yale}Kay Dian Kriz, Slavery, sugar, and the culture of refinement : picturing the British West Indies, 1700-1840, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, p. 44, N8214.5.W38 K75 2008 (LC) (YCBA)Felicity Nussbaum, The Global Eighteenth Century, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Md., 2003, p.197, fig. 13.2, D287 G56 2003 (YCBA)