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DOI Artikel:Pawłowska, Magdalena; Kauffmann, Angelica [Ill.]: À propos de deux portraits féminins d'Angelica Kauffmann
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17162#0087
5. Raphael Morgen, d'aprls AngeJica Kauffmann, Domenica Volpato Morghen (Phot. Paris,
BibKoth;que Nationale, Service Photographiąue)
le tableau du Musee National. Les dimensions et le contenu de celui-ci correspondent a ceux
de la note. On peut donc en deduire que sous les traits de la Muse de la tragedie, c'est la femme
de Raphael Morghen, la filie de Giovanni Volpato, qui a ete representee, et sous ceux de la Muse
de la comedie, la belle-fille de Volpato. Le choix des modeles de cette composition, peinte par
Fartiste „pour son propre plaisir", n'est pas le fruit d'un hasard. Des liens d^amitie la liaient
10. V. Manners, G. C. Williamson, op. cit., London, 1924, p. 162: Rome 1792. For Baron de Mecrman, Dutchman of the Hague,
a picture width 7 spans 2, height 5 spans 9, with two life size figuręs represenling the Iwo Muses, Tragedy and Comedy
with their attribules. The heades are the portraits of two very pretty young women, friends of artist, she painted them as Muses for
her own pleasure. The two young ladies are; the one representing the Muse of tragedy is the daughter of Mr Giovanni Volpato
the celebrated engraver and she is the wife of Mr Raphael Morghen the most renowned engrayer. The other lady is the ivife
of one of the sons of the above, named Volpato. This piclure was boughi by the above named Baron de Meerman of the Hagite
of the sum of 240 Zecchini.
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BibKoth;que Nationale, Service Photographiąue)
le tableau du Musee National. Les dimensions et le contenu de celui-ci correspondent a ceux
de la note. On peut donc en deduire que sous les traits de la Muse de la tragedie, c'est la femme
de Raphael Morghen, la filie de Giovanni Volpato, qui a ete representee, et sous ceux de la Muse
de la comedie, la belle-fille de Volpato. Le choix des modeles de cette composition, peinte par
Fartiste „pour son propre plaisir", n'est pas le fruit d'un hasard. Des liens d^amitie la liaient
10. V. Manners, G. C. Williamson, op. cit., London, 1924, p. 162: Rome 1792. For Baron de Mecrman, Dutchman of the Hague,
a picture width 7 spans 2, height 5 spans 9, with two life size figuręs represenling the Iwo Muses, Tragedy and Comedy
with their attribules. The heades are the portraits of two very pretty young women, friends of artist, she painted them as Muses for
her own pleasure. The two young ladies are; the one representing the Muse of tragedy is the daughter of Mr Giovanni Volpato
the celebrated engraver and she is the wife of Mr Raphael Morghen the most renowned engrayer. The other lady is the ivife
of one of the sons of the above, named Volpato. This piclure was boughi by the above named Baron de Meerman of the Hagite
of the sum of 240 Zecchini.
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