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Study of a female Figure

Francesco Solimena (1657–1747)

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Study of a female Figure

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Boreas, the icy North Wind, carried off the beautiful Orithyia to be his wife (Ovid, 'Metamorphoses' VI, 692–715). This oil sketch is a study for one of the handmaids in Solimena's composition of 'The Rape of Orithyia'. He made two versions of the subject and the figure is identical in both: the first, of 1700–1701 for Fabrizio Spada Veralli (Galleria Spada, Rome), and the second of 1728–1729, an Imperial commission (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).

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Title

Study of a female Figure

Medium

oil on paper

Measurements

H 26.4 x W 24.5 cm

Accession number

WA1937.128

Acquisition method

Purchased, 1937

Work type

Painting

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Francesco Solimena

1657–1747

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