Portrait of a Woman with Her Dog

Artist Bernard Lens III (English, 1682 - 1740)

Dateca. 1728

MediumWatercolor and gouache on ivory; Gold and gold plate case with blue enamel bezel; blue glass over embossed foil reverse

DimensionsSight: 2 1/4 × 3 3/16 inches (5.72 × 8.1 cm)
Framed: 2 5/8 × 3 1/2 inches (6.67 × 8.89 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr and the Starr Foundation, Inc.

Object numberF58-60/85

InscribedInscribed with monogram on recto, lower left: "BL"

On View

Not on view

Collections

European Art

Terms

DescriptionPortrait miniature of a woman wearing a blue gown with a black and white dog before a landscape background.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Four Centuries of Miniature Painting, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, January 19–March 19, 1950, unnumbered, as Lady with a Dog.

British Portrait Miniatures: An Exhibition Arranged for the Period of the Edinburgh International Festival, The Arts Council of Great Britain, Edinburgh, August 20–September 18, 1965, no. 160, as Portrait of a Lady with a Dog.

The Starr Foundation Collection of Miniatures, The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, December 8, 1972–January 14, 1973, no cat., no. 35, as Unknown Lady with Dog.

Provenance

Mr. John W. (1905–2000) and Mrs. Martha Jane (1906–2011) Starr, Kansas City, MO, by 1958;

Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1958.

Published References

Four Centuries of Miniature Painting, exh. cat. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1950), 6, as Lady with a Dog.

British Portrait Miniatures: An Exhibition Arranged for the Period of the Edinburgh International Festival, exh. cat. (Edinburgh: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1965), unpaginated, as Portrait of a Lady with a Dog.

Ross E. Taggart, The Starr Collection of Miniatures in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery (Kansas City, MO: Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, 1971), no. 35, p. 17, (repro.), as Unknown Lady with Dog.

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