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A Greek Captive
Bequeathed by C. Fraser 1868
Abruzzesi, Maria Pasqua
actions: postures and motions
children
clothing and personal items
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dress: nations/regions
girl
Greece
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painting oil paint canvas
5 March 1997
5 March 1997
1997-03-05
National Gallery (London, UK)
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk
1997-03-05
Long Loan to the National Gallery
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23 August 2019 – 17 November 2019
2019-11-17
23 August 2019 – 17 November 2019
2019-11-17
2019-08-23
Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand – MASP (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
2019-08-23
Histories of women
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31 October 2023 – 16 June 2024
2024-06-16
31 October 2023 – 4 February 2024
2024-02-04
2023-10-31
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza (Madrid, Spain)
2023-10-31
Women Masters, Old and Modern
Loan-out
A Greek Captive
frame: 1218 × 1015 × 115 mm
support: 921 × 730 mm
Bequeathed by C. Fraser 1868
<p><b>Henriette Browne</b> 1829-1901</p>
<p><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/browne-a-greek-captive-n01969" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N01969</span></a> <b>A Greek Captive</b> 1863</p>
<p>Inscribed 'Henriette Browne 1863.' b.l. 
<br/>Oil on canvas, 36 1/4 x 28 3/4 (92 x 73) 
<br/>Bequeathed by Charles Fraser to the National Gallery 1868, with life interest to the Rev. Simon Fraser, d. 1905; transferred c.1920 
<br/><i>Prov</i>: Charles Fraser, London; Rev. Simon Fraser, Basingstoke, 1868 <i>Lit</i>: Magdalen Goffin, <i>Maria Pasqua</i> (Oxford-London-New York 1979), pp. 23, 155, repr. as frontispiece</p>
<p>The sitter, Maria Pasqua Abruzzesi (1856-1939), was the daughter of impoverished Italian peasants. Her father took her to Paris in 1862 where she had great success as a child model for such fashionable artists as Jalabert, Hébert and Bonnat, and where her exceptional beauty attracted the interest of the Comtesse de Noailles, who bought her from her father in 1865 and brought her up as her adopted daughter. She subsequently married Philip Shepheard, a Norfolk country gentleman.</p>
<p><b>Published in</b>: 
<br/>Ronald Alley, <b>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</b>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, pp.84-5, reproduced p.84</p>

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Abruzzesi, Maria Pasqua actions: postures and motions children clothing and personal items dress dress: nations/regions girl Greece individuals: female named individuals objects people portraits sitting society