{"data":{"id":103887,"api_model":"artworks","api_link":"https:\/\/api.artic.edu\/api\/v1\/artworks\/103887","is_boosted":true,"title":"A Young Lady with a Parrot","alt_titles":null,"thumbnail":{"lqip":"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhBAAFAPQAACYeFDQsID83LEM2JV1SP2JQPFNWUW1gT2tpYXdyYXB2amh2dmV7fY16ZFCCjZWPgpyXhZ+flbSahLSnnAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACH5BAAAAAAALAAAAAAEAAUAAAURIHAUQyA1hJBAiuFEz7QwSAgAOw==","width":5120,"height":6160,"alt_text":"A pastel drawing of woman in blue and pink dress with blue parrot."},"main_reference_number":"1985.40","has_not_been_viewed_much":false,"boost_rank":null,"date_start":1725,"date_end":1735,"date_display":"c. 1730","date_qualifier_title":"","date_qualifier_id":null,"artist_display":"Rosalba Carriera\nItalian, 1673-1757","place_of_origin":"Venice","description":"<p>Rosalba Carriera is renowned for the distinction she brought to pastel portraiture in Italy and France during the first half of the eighteenth century. No female artist enjoyed greater success or exerted more influence on the art of her era than Rosalba, as she is known. The artist\u2019s work in pastel divides itself into two categories: portraits and allegories. A shrewd judge of character, she enhanced but never obscured the actual appearance of the sitters in her portraits. In contrast, her allegorical types are often so generalized that they can seem repetitive, bland, and undistinguished. <em>A Young Lady with a Parrot<\/em> is an intriguing combination of both genres. The colorful parrot is a witty conceit that subtly transfers the provocative gesture of baring one\u2019s breast from the young woman to a mischievous bird, whose beak pulls back the gauzy fabric that edges the sitter\u2019s bodice. With its rich colorism and vaporous effects, <em>A Young Lady with a Parrot<\/em> is a mature work, exhibiting the assurance of Rosalba\u2019s finest and most famous portraits. The pastel may depict a young Englishwoman, perhaps one of the daughters of Lord Manchester. Whoever the model, this image\u2019s aura of grace and seduction was to characterize the arts of much of the century, marking Rosalba as one of the originators of the Rococo style in Italy and France.<\/p>\n","short_description":"Rosalba Carriera, or simply Rosalba, as she was known, was a shrewd judge of character; she enhanced but never obscured the appearance of her sitters. This pastel may depict a young Englishwoman, perhaps one of the daughters of Lord Manchester. Whoever the model, this image\u2019s aura of grace and seduction would characterize the arts of much of the 18th century, marking Rosalba as one of the originators of the Rococo style in Italy and France.","dimensions":"60 \u00d7 50 cm (23 5\/8 \u00d7 19 11\/16 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":null,"width":50,"height":60,"diameter":null,"clarification":null}],"medium_display":"Pastel on blue laid paper, mounted on laminated paper board","inscriptions":null,"credit_line":"The Regenstein Collection","catalogue_display":null,"publication_history":"Louis de Fourcaud, \u201cLe Pastel et les Pastellistes Fran\u00e7ais au XVIII\u00e8me si\u00e8cle. \u00c0 propos de l\u2019Exposition des Cents Pastels,\u201d Revue de l\u2019Art Ancien et Moderne, XXIV (1908), pp. 13-14.\n\nA. Lesmoine, \u201cExposition de Cent Pastels,\u201d Les Arts, 82 (October 1908), pp. 14-15.\n\nFrank Davis, \u201cTalking about Salerooms: Masterly Menagerie,\u201d Country Life (March 14, 1985), p. 644 (ill.).\n\nBernardina Sani, Rosalba Carriera (Turin, 1988), no. 92, fig. 72.\n\nBernardina Sani, \u201cRosalba Carriera\u2019s Young Lady with a Parrot,\u201d The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 17, 1 (1991), pp. 75-95 (ill.).\n\nJan Martineau and Andrew Robison, The Glory of Venice, Art in the Eighteenth Century (New Haven, Conn., 1995), p. 19, fig. 5. \n\n\u201cMaineri to Mir\u00f3: The Regenstein Collection Since 1975,\u201d The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 26, 1 (2000), pp. 30-31 (ill.).\n\nThe Essential Guide (Chicago, 2009), p. 296 (ill.).","exhibition_history":"Paris, Gal\u00e9rie Georges Petit, \u201cExposition de cent pastels du XVIIIe si\u00e8cle par Latour, Perronneau, Nattier ... [et al.],\u201d cat. 6, cat. by the Marquise de Ganay,1908. \n\nThe Art Institute of Chicago, \u201cThe Regenstein Collection of European Drawings,\u201d 1985-1986. \n\nThe Art Institute of Chicago: May 1, 1987-July 24, 1989 (Installation in Allerton gallery 220A).","provenance_text":"Probably private collector, United Kingdom, by 1896 [see auction at Robinson and Fisher, London, Feb. 27, 1896, lot 125].  Maurice Gangnat, Paris (died 1924) by 1908; Casimir S. Stralem, New York; Donald S. Stralem (died 1976), New York; by descent to his wife, Mrs. Jean I. 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