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Creator:
Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796
Title:

A West Indian Creole Woman Attended by her Black Servant

Date:
ca. 1780
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
12 x 9 7/8 inches (30.5 x 25.1 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.82
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
boy | child | Creole | genre subject | landscape | linen (material) | mountains | servant | shawls | skirts (garments) | tree | walking | women
Associated Places:
West Indies
Access:
Not on view
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Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:592
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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.85, available online via Proquest [ORBIS]

Mia L. Bagneris, Colouring the Caribbean : Race and the Art of Agostino Brunias, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2018, p. 195, fig. 51, NJ18.B84652 B34 2018 (YCBA) [YCBA]

David Bindman, The Image of the Black in Western Art : From the " Age of Discovery" to the Age of Abolition, , vol. 3, part 3, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2010, pp. 274, 279, 280, fig. 270, N8217.B535 I42 2010+ (YCBA) Citations are to Vol. 3, Part 3 [YCBA]

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 46-47, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Impact Anglais, Hachette Education, , p. 47, (Not at Yale}

Kay Dian Kriz, Slavery, sugar, and the culture of refinement: picturing the British West Indies, 1700-1840, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, p. 44, N8214.5.W38 K75 2008 (LC) (YCBA) [YCBA]

Felicity Nussbaum, The Global Eighteenth Century, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Md., 2003, p.197, fig. 13.2, D287 G56 2003 (YCBA) [YCBA]


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