Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Francesco Renaldi, 1755–1800, Italian, active in Britain (from 1777)
Title:
An Unknown Woman
Date:
1789
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
22 1/2 × 27 1/2 inches (57.2 × 69.9 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated in black, lower right: "Fr. RENALDI PINXIT | [Dacca 7...9]"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.519
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
genre subject | stool | scarf | rug | pillow | slippers | nose ring | earrings | anklets | collar | ring | necklaces | bracelets (jewelry) | hookah | tray | jewel | silver | interior (space) | doors | window | Indian | girl | woman | reclining
Associated Places:
India | Bangladesh | Dacca
Currently On View:
On view
Exhibition History:
In a New Light: 500 Years of British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-04-01 - 2026-01-30)

The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26)

"Brilliant Effects" [ Jewels ] (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-07-10 - 2004-01-10)

The Splendours of Princely India (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985-11 - 1986-02-23)
Publications:
Mildred Archer, India and British Portraiture, 1770-1825, London, 1979, pp. 280, 505, fig. 195, ND1327 I44 A72 (YCBA)

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 184-185, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)

Jonathan Eacott, Selling empire : India in the making of Britain and America, 1600-1830, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2016, p. 292-93, Pl. 17, DA16 .E23 2016 (YCBA)

Pran Nevile, The Raj revisited, Niyogi Books, New Delhi, 2012, p. 110, N8214.5.I5 N48 2012 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1003