A Religious Allegory on the Death of a Young Woman
Framed: 22 3/8 × 24 1/4 × 2 3/4 inches (56.83 × 61.6 × 6.99 cm)
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Purchased at Old Master and British Paintings and Old Master Drawings, Phillips, London, April 13, 1999, lot 77, as by Maria Cosway, erroneously as Christ raising the young Woman from her Deathbed, by James and Virginia Moffett, Kansas City, 1999–2023 [1];
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2023.
[1] The painting was bought in (bought back for the owner at or below the reserve price) at two sales in 1998: Old Master Paintings, Phillips, London, July 7, 1998, lot 210, where it was erroneously attributed to Circle of Antonio Canova, An Apparition of the Empress Helena holding the True Cross and a flaming Heart at the Death of a young Woman surrounded by female Mourners and an Angel; and at Early British and Victorian Paintings, Phillips, London, November 24, 1998, lot 10, as by Maria Cosway, erroneously as Christ raising the Young Woman from her Deathbed.
Old Master Paintings (London: Phillips, July 7, 1998), lot 210, erroneously attributed to Circle of Antonio Canova, An Apparition of the Empress Helena holding the True Cross and a flaming Heart at the Death of a young Woman surrounded by female Mourners and an Angel.
Early British and Victorian Paintings (London: Phillips, November 24, 1998), lot 10, by Maria Cosway, erroneously as Christ raising the Young Woman from her Deathbed.
Old Master and British Paintings and Old Master Drawings (London: Phillips, April 13, 1999), lot 77, by Maria Cosway, erroneously as Christ raising the young Woman from her Deathbed.
Libby Hanssen, "Arts in Brief: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Receives Gift of Maria Cosway Painting," KC Studio 16, no. 3 (May/June 2024): 18, (repro.), as A Religious Allegory on the Death of a Young Woman.
