The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Virgil writing his Epitaph at Brundisi
- Oil on canvas
- 39 × 49 ½ inches · 99.1 × 125.7 mm
- Signed and dated ‘Angelica Kauffman pinx. 1785’
Engraved: By Thomas Burke, Virgil Writing his Epitaph, published 1794.
Collections
- Commissioned by George Bowles (d.1817), The Grove, Wanstead;
- Rebecca Bowles Rushout, his sister, 1818;
- Anne Rushout, her daughter, Wanstead Grove (inventory of 1826);
- Harriet Rushout Cockerell, her sister, 1851;
- Charles Rushout, her son, 1869;
- Rushout Sale, Phillips & Neale, December 9, 1879, £99.15s to 'Aldis';
- 37 Hill Street, London, c. 1890-1974;
- Christie's, London November 22, 1974, lot.163;
- Herner Wengraff Gallery, London, 1974;
- Private collection, USA, to 2005;
- Private collection, USA, to 2018
Exhibitions
- London, Royal Academy, 1786, no.196;
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Women Artists: 1550-1950, December 21, 1976 - March 13, 1977;
- Austin, University Art Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, April 12-June 12, 1977;
- Pittsburgh, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, July 14 -September 4, 1977;
- Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Museum, October 8 -November 27, 1977;
- Düsseldorf, Kunstmuseum, Angelica Kauffman 1741-1807, November 15, 1998 -January 24, 1999;
- Munich, Haus der Kunst, February 5, 1999 -April 18, 1999;
- Chur, Bündner Kunstmuseum, May 8 - July 11, 1999.
Literature
- Giovanni Gherardo De Rossi, Memorie per le belle Arti, April 1785, pp.LII-LIII;
- Francis Gerard, Angelica Kauffman: A Biography, London, 1893, p.367;
- Lady Victoria Manners and G. C. Williamson, Angelica Kauffman RA. Her Life and Works, London, 1924 pp.67,148;
- Ann Sutherland Harris and Linda Nochlin, Women Artists: 1550-1950, Los Angeles, 1976;
- Ed. Bettina Baumgärtel, Angelika Kauffmann 1741-1807: Eine Dichterin mit dem Pinsel, exh. cat., Düsseldorf, 1998, pp.386-387;
- Ed. Melissa Hyde, Women, Art and the Politics of Identity in Eighteenth-Century Europe, Aldershot, 2003, pp.165-167.