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This painting probably belongs to a series of half-length capriccio portraits of women for Elizabeth Petrovna, Empress of Russia on which Tiepolo was working in late 1760. This distinctive Venetian genre of poetic or fantasy portraits derives from Giorgione, and Tiepolo (celebrated as a latter-day Veronese) often looked to sixteenth-century Venetian art. Such images of beautiful women are often categorised as courtesans. Exotic birds are common in Tiepolo's work and here the macaw provides a colourful and witty motif. The cameo portrait shows one of the Caesars, possibly Augustus. Lorenzo Tiepolo made a pastel copy of this painting (National Gallery of Art, Washington), together with a pendant showing a woman in a fur wrap ('Allegory of Winter', Kress Collection, El Paso Museum) which may record a lost oil painting.
Title
A young Woman with a Macaw
Date
late 1760
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 71 x W 53.4 cm
Accession number
WA1955.67
Acquisition method
Presented by the Art Fund from the collection of Ernest E. Cook, 1955
Work type
Painting
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Beaumont Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 2PH England
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