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Follow the mother’s hand on her daughter’s arm to the basket of flowers, then find the rose the girl is picking and the spaniel lying at the lower right.
Angelica Kauffmann painted this mother and daughter around 1771, during her years in London. A handwritten label on the stretcher connects the picture with Mrs. Hugh Morgan of Cottles Town and Cork Abbey in Ireland, and the Art Institute of Chicago records that it probably passed to her daughter Catharine. A basket of flowers rests between the two as the girl reaches for a rose.
Oil on canvas · 63.2 × 76.3 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Neoclassicism
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- Museum title
- Mrs. Hugh Morgan and Her Daughter
- Artist
- Angelica Kauffmann (Swiss, 1741–1807)
- Date
- c. 1771
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 63.2 × 76.3 cm (24 7/8 × 30 in.); Framed: 76.9 × 89.8 × 10.2 cm (30 1/4 × 35 3/8 × 4 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. L. E. Block
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.