Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta
Spanish, 1841–1920
Woman with a Guitar
c. 1870
This panel shows a woman reading a musical score on the chair in front of her as she strums a guitar. Like many of his contemporaries, Madrazo often painted music-making, which was considered an important part of a woman’s education in the nineteenth century. Despite the painting’s small scale, the artist depicted the richly furnished interior and the figure’s elegant dress with great delicacy.
| Medium | oil on panel |
| Dimensions | 11 7/8 x 7 in. (30.2 x 17.8 cm) Frame: 15 1/4 x 10 1/2 x 1 3/8 in. (38.7 x 26.7 x 3.5 cm) |
| Object Number | 1955.799 |
| Acquisition | Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955 |
| Status | Off View |
Image Caption
Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta, Woman with a Guitar, c. 1870, oil on panel. Clark Art Institute, 1955.799
Select Bibliography
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1972.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984.
Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992.
Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012.
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Provenance
[H. & P. De Casseres, London, sold to Clark, 23 Jan. 1935]; Robert Sterling Clark (1935–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.
