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Artist:
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Charles Edward Perugini
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Title:
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I know a maiden fair to see, take care
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Date:
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1868
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Medium:
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Oil on paper laid down on canvas
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Dimensions:
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21 9/16 x 21 3/16 in. (54.77 x 53.82 cm) (sight)
28 1/2 x 28 3/4 in. (72.39 x 73.03 cm) (outer frame)
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Credit Line:
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The Ethel Morrison Van Derlip Fund, The William Hood Dunwoody Fund, and gift of funds from Ruth and Bruce Dayton, Darwin and Geri Reedy, Kevin and Polly Hart, and Ford Bell
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Location:
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Gallery 357
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This picture illustrates a passage from a German ballad translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1843:
"I know a maiden fair to see, / Take care! / She can both false and friendly be, / Beware! Beware! / Trust her not / She is fooling thee."
The Italian-born Perugini arrived in London in 1863, where he apprenticed to Frederic, Lord Leighton. The model in this picture appears in several Leighton oils of the mid-1860s. Perugini exhibited his painting at the Royal Academy in 1868, the same year that Leighton exhibited the Institute's Jonathan's Token to David. The great Pre-Raphaelite master, John Everett Millais, acquired Peruginiâs picture at that exhibition. In 1873, Perugini married Kate Dickens, the daughter of Charles Dickens. He would become a very fashionable painter of neo-classical subjects, yet he rarely surpassed the enchanting virtuosity of this early masterwork.
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Artist/Creator(s)
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Name:
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Perugini, Charles Edward
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Nationality:
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British
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Life Dates:
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British (born in Italy), 1839 - 1918
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Object Description
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Inscriptions:
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Physical Description:
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head, shoulders and arms of a woman with blonde wavy hair, leaning on a white cushion; woman wears brown, black and white dress, gold chain bracelet, pearl earrings, gold and pearl rings and holds a fan
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Creation Place:
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Europe, Italy, , ,
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Accession #:
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2003.204
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Owner:
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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