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Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796, Italian, active in Britain (1758–70; 1777-80s), Free West Indian Creoles in Elegant Dress, ca. 1780
- Title:
Free West Indian Creoles in Elegant Dress
- Former Title(s):
Two Ladies and a Gentleman in Elegant Costume [1985, Cormack, YCBA Concise Catalogue]
- Date:
- ca. 1780
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 12 1/8 x 9 3/4 inches (30.8 x 24.8 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.79
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.79FR
- Subject Terms:
- costume | Creole | freedom | genre subject | gesture | hills | landscape | man | shawls | trees | women
- Access:
- Not on view
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:589
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Amanda Michaela Bagneris, Coloring the Caribbean : Agostino Brunias and the Painting of Race in the British West Indes, 1765-1800 [PhD Dissertation, Harvard University], Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2009, fig. 79, available online via Proquest [ORBIS]
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 44-45, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Kay Dian Kriz, Slavery, sugar, and the culture of refinement: picturing the British West Indies, 1700-1840, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, p. 39, N8214.5.W38 K75 2008 (LC) (YCBA) [YCBA]
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