Rosalba Carriera: Gustavus Hamilton (1710–1746), Second Viscount Boyne, in Masquerade Costume
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Artist |
creator QS:P170,Q237726 | |
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Title |
Gustavus Hamilton (1710–1746), Second Viscount Boyne, in Masquerade Costume title QS:P1476,en:"Gustavus Hamilton (1710–1746), Second Viscount Boyne, in Masquerade Costume "
label QS:Len,"Gustavus Hamilton (1710–1746), Second Viscount Boyne, in Masquerade Costume "
label QS:Lca,"Gustavus Hamilton (1710-1746), segon vescomte Boyne, amb disfressa de mascarada"
label QS:Lpt,"Gustavus Hamilton"
label QS:Lde,"Porträt von Gustavus Hamilton, 2nd Viscount Boyne (1710–1746) in Kostüm, gemalt"
label QS:Lpt-br,"Gustavus Hamilton" |
Object type |
painting |
Genre |
portrait |
Description |
Gustavus Hamilton (1710–1746), who was Irish, succeeded in 1723 as Viscount Boyne. He and Edward Walpole, the second son of the powerful Whig prime minister Sir Robert Walpole, were in Venice from January to March 1730, enjoying the pleasures of the Carnival season, and Boyne was there again the following winter. There are three versions of the present portrait: the second (private collection) shows the sitter in an identical costume; in the third (Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham, England) he wears a brown brocaded coat. The hat, veil, and mask, worn outdoors with a black coat, is known to Venetians as the bautta and offered its wearer the advantage of anonymity. |
Depicted people |
Gustavus Hamilton, 2nd Viscount Boyne |
Date |
between 1730 and 1731 date QS:P,+1730-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1730-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1731-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
Medium |
pastel on blue paper, laid on canvas |
Dimensions |
height: 56.5 cm (22.2 in) ; width: 42.9 cm (16.8 in) dimensions QS:P2048,+56.5U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,+42.9U174728 |
Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q160236 |
Current location |
Gallery 624 |
Accession number |
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Object history |
Provenance:
- ?Owen McSwiny, London (until d. 1754;
- his estate sale, Langford, London, February 28, 1755, no. 53, as "A Head of Lord Boyne, in Crayons, 3 qrs," by Rosalba);
- ?Nathaniel Clements, The Ranger's Lodge, Phoenix Park, Dublin (probably until d. 1777);
- his son, Robert Clements, later 1st Earl of Leitrim, The Ranger's Lodge (probably 1777–82; inv., 1782 or shortly before) and Killadoon, Celbridge, County Kildare (1782–d. 1804);
- Earls of Leitrim, Killadoon (from 1804; inv. 1856);
- by descent to Henry T. W. Clements, Killadoon (by 1957–d. 1974);
- his great-nephew, Charles Clements, Killadoon (1974–2002;
- on loan to J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 2000–2001;
- sale, Sotheby's, New York, January 24, 2002, no. 54, to Sayn-Wittgenstein for The Met)
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Exhibition history |
- New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Pastel Portraits: Images of 18th-Century Europe," May 17–August 14, 2011, no. 4.
- New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Eighteenth-Century Pastels," August 6–December 29, 2013, no catalogue.
- New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Eighteenth-Century Pastel Portraits," July 26–October 29, 2017, no catalogue.
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Credit line |
Purchase, George Delacorte Fund Gift, in memory of George T. Delacorte Jr., and Gwynne Andrews, Victor Wilbour Memorial, and Marquand Funds, 2002 |
References |
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Source/Photographer |
former image source [1]; current image source [2] |