Spilletta

1782

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Portrait of the actress Madame Favart, shown half-length and standing at the edge of a wood. She looks up, wears a rustic dress with a posy, apron, straw hat with ribbons and clogs, and a cross around her neck suspended from a ribbon.

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Title: Spilletta
Engraver: Anonymous, British, 18th century
Artist: After Carle (Charles André) Vanloo (French, Nice 1705–1765 Paris)
Publisher: W. Turner (British, active 1772–84)
Sitter: Justine Favart (French, 1727–1772)
Date: 1782
Medium: Mezzotint
Dimensions: Sheet (trimmed close to plate): 5 1/2 × 4 1/2 in. (14 × 11.5 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
Object Number: 17.3.756-1161
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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