Reclining Female Nude in a Landscape with Two Dogs

Reclining Female Nude in a Landscape with Two Dogs

about 1830-1835
Artist
William Etty
Country
England
Object
painting
Medium
Oil paint on millboard mounted on canvas
Accession Number
2018.13
Credit Line
Gift of the Berger Collection Educational Trust

William Etty, Reclining Female Nude in a Landscape with Two Dogs, About 1830–35. Oil paint on millboard mounted on canvas; 27 ×  30 1/2 in. (68.6 × 77.5 cm). Gift of the Berger Collection Educational Trust, 2018.13

Dimensions
image height: 27 in, 68.5800 cm; image width: 30 1/2 in, 77.4700 cm; frame height: 37.625 in, 95.5675 cm; frame width: 40.75 in, 103.5050 cm; frame depth: 4.5 in, 11.4300 cm
Department
European and American Art Before 1900
Collection
European Painting and Sculpture before 1900

William Etty was one of the only British artists to specialize in painting the nude before the twentieth century. A pupil of Sir Thomas Lawrence at the Royal Academy Schools in London, Etty also studied the works of the old masters on a sojourn in France and Italy, in particular Titian, Veronese, and Rubens. The Berger picture recalls Titian’s nudes, but Etty’s inspiration may have been The Toilet of Venus by Diego Velázquez, which Etty could have seen in a private collection in his native York. 

 

Known Provenance
Camille Groult, Paris, before 1900; inherited by Pierre Bordeaux-Groult, Paris, by 1958; by descent until 2004; purchased from (Didier Aaron, Inc., Paris) by the Berger Collection Educational Trust, Denver, 2010; gifted to the Denver Art Museum, 2018. Provenance research is on-going at the Denver Art Museum and we will post information as it becomes available. Please e-mail provenance@denverartmuseum.org, if you have questions, or if you have additional information to share with us.
Exhibition History
  • “Treasures from the Berger Collection: British Paintings 1400-2000” — Denver Art Museum, 10/2/2014 – 9/9/2018