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Secret Mission

Madame de Burman

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Basic information
ID
Г-III-1
Author
Madame de Burman
Name
Secret Mission
Date of creation
1785
Country
Poland
Technique
painting
Material
ivory gouache
Dimensions (height x width, cm)
15.1 x 10.5
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Type
graphic art
Genre
genre art
Information about author
Author
Madame de Burman
Artist's lifetime
last quarter of the 18th c.
Country
France, Poland
Biography
There is no information about the author’s biography. According to the signed and dated works, it is considered that the artist worked in Paris and Warsaw in the last quarter of the 18th century.
Object description
One can see a noblewoman in the interior of the palace, with the stone ornamented floor, column, lush drapery, desk, and baroque chair with red upholstery. She is dressed in a full velvet skirt, a red waistcoat with golden clasps, and a nobleman's headdress with a hanging fabric top. The waistcoat and headdress are decorated with dark fur. She is handing the letter to an elderly person; the man dressed in a kontusz bowed down. On the table next to the stationery there is a white sheet with the author's signature and the date, which was previously interpreted as 1735.
Inscriptions
On the sheet lying on the table, there is the author's signature and date: Mde de Burman 1785.
Legal regulation
Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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