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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 2023 | ZORAIDA; THE BEAUTIFUL MOOR | Dreweatts | Berkshire | ||||
paintings
9.8 x 7.9 cm (3.86 x 3.11 in)
Oil on paper laid on metal
oval Inscribed "A Kauffmann" (on the reverse)
ANGELICA KAUFFMANN (SWISS 1741- 1807) ZORAIDA, THE BEAUTIFUL MOOR Oil on paper laid on metal, oval Inscribed "A Kauffmann" (on the reverse) 9.8 x 7.9cm (3¾ x 3 in.) Engraved:F. Bartolozzi, published by Walker, Nov 1778The present picture, by one of the most important female artists of the eighteenth century, had been considered lost and was known only through the existence of a Bartolozzi"s engraving. Zoraida was a Moorish noblewoman, a character taken from The Captive"s Tale in Cervantes" Don Quixote. Kauffmann depicts her in recognisably English costume, holding a mask of a type commonly worn at English masquerade balls, rather than the Eastern veil featured in the original story. Kauffmann conceived her as a pendant to the similarly diminutive picture entitled Fatima - the Fair Sultana (Christie"s, 23 November 2004, lot 19) , the subject of which is much more explicitly Eastern. The popularity of Orientalism in 18th Century Britain was inspired by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu"s Turkish Embassy Letters where she described life in the Ottoman Court and the freedom and spectacle of the Masquerade. She wrote in ravishing terms about Fatima who she believed epitomised female beauty in Ottoman culture. In 1768, one of the most magnificent public masquerade balls to date took place, at Vanbrugh"s Italian Opera House in Haymarket. Angelica Kauffmann was ideally placed to reflect this fashion, and some of the ideas behind it, in her art. To be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Raisonné of the works of Angelica Kauffmann, compiled by Dr Bettina Baumgartel, Chief Curator of Painting at the Kunstpalast Gallery, Düsseldorf.
