Artist: Sir Joshua Reynolds (English, 1793-1792)
Title: The Age of Innocence
Medium: Antique etching on thick laid paper after the original oil on canvas by master etcher Pierre-Antoine Mongin (French, 1761-1827). 1838-1906).
Signature: Signed in the plate
Dimensions: Image Size 6 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches.
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 15 x 19 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
Portrait of an unidentified young girl, whole-length sitting beneath a tree, her head in profile to right, hands together at her chest and her feet bare, wearing a white dress and a bow in her hair; landscape with castle beyond.
Sir Joshua Reynolds was an English portrait painter and aesthetician who dominated English artistic life in the middle and late 18th century. Through his art and teaching, he attempted to lead British painting away from the indigenous anecdotal pictures of the early 18th century toward the formal rhetoric of the continental Grand Style. With the founding of the Royal Academy in 1768, Reynolds was elected its first president and knighted by King George III.