Head of a Woman

Head of a WomanR. Ekkart suggested a connection with the style of Juriaen Pool (1665 6 1745) and proposed a date in the first half of the 1690s (oral communication, 1997).

A studio replica of Reynolds's original of c

Archibald Hope (1664-1743)

probably painted by a French artist in the late 18th century

there is no real evidence that the sitter was a member of the Coxe family

Denning records that Turner admired the picture and recognised it as the work of Claude

Catalogued until 1987 as Italian

not on the grand scale of the preceding five years

A drawing in the Paul Mellon collection and an engraving by A

in the 1640s he came under the influence of Poussin

Above the podium of the temple

The scene shows the moment in Ovid's Metamorphoses VI when Apollo and Diana slay all of Niobe's fourteen children to avenge their mother Leto

see Mannings and Postle