Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Arthur Devis, 1712–1787, British
Title:
An Unknown Woman in a Drawing Room
Date:
between 1740 and 1741
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
19 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches (50.2 x 34.9 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.232
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
drawing room | window | blue | interior | portrait | chair | hat
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Conversation Piece - Arthur Devis & His Contemporaries (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-10-01 - 1980-11-30)
Publications:
Jeremy Aynsley, Imagined interiors, representing the domestic interior since the Renaissance , V&A Publications, London New York, 2006, p. 118, 119, Fig. 5.16, NK1710 I43 2006 + (YCBA)

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 84-85, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)

Ellen G. D'Oench, Arthur Devis (1712-1787): master of the Georgian conversation piece, , University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, Mich., 1982, p. 438, No. 173, NJ18 D5151 D635 1979A (YCBA)

Ellen G. D'Oench, The Conversation Piece: Arthur Devis & his contemporaries, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1980, pp. 9-10, 43, 89, cat, no. 3; AD list no, 173, pl. 3, NJ18 D5151 D64 OVERSIZE
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:741