Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796, Italian, active in Britain (1758–70; 1777-80s)
Title:
West Indian Women of Color, with a Child and Black Servant
Date:
ca. 1780
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
12 1/4 x 9 7/8 inches (31.1 x 25.1 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.83
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
genre subject | landscape | costume | basket | trees | mountains | cliff | Creole | boys | child | gesture | women | servant
Associated Places:
West Indies
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Prospects of Empire : Slavery and Ecology in Eighteenth-century Atlantic Britain (The Lewis Walpole Library, 2014-11-17 - 2015-05-01)
Publications:
Malcolm 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)Prospects of Empire : slavery and ecology in eighteenth-century Atlantic Britain : an exhibition at the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, 20 October 2014 through May 1, 2015, Yale University Library, New Haven, CT, 2015, p. 19, no. 2, V 2578 (YCBA)