File:Cymon and Iphigenia by J.Reynolds (c.1775-89).jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Cymon_and_Iphigenia_by_J.Reynolds_(c.1775-89).jpg ‎(594 × 500 pixels, file size: 242 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary[edit]

Joshua Reynolds: Cymon and Iphigenia  wikidata:Q28026393 reasonator:Q28026393
Artist
Joshua Reynolds  (1723–1792)  wikidata:Q194402 s:en:Author:Joshua Reynolds q:en:Joshua Reynolds
 
Joshua Reynolds
Description British painter, writer, art collector and visual artist
Date of birth/death 16 July 1723 Edit this at Wikidata 23 February 1792 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Plympton London
Work location
London, Plympton, Italy
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q194402
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Cymon and Iphigenia Edit this at Wikidata
label QS:Len,"Cymon and Iphigenia."
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Genre mythological painting Edit this at Wikidata
Description
Cymon and Iphigenia. c.1775-89. Royal Collection Trust. RCIN 404695.
Depicted people Iphigenia Edit this at Wikidata
Date circa between 1775 and 1789
date QS:P571,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1775-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1789-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 143.2 cm (56.3 in); width: 171.6 cm (67.5 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,143.2U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,171.6U174728
(support, canvas/panel/str external)
institution QS:P195,Q1459037
Accession number
RCIN 404695.
Object history
  • Reynolds
  • bequeathed to his niece, the Marchioness of Thomond by Reynolds
  • 1814: given to George IV by Marchioness of Thomond
Notes When George III was asked by Lord Eglinton to sit for the most fashionable portrait painter of the day, Joshua Reynolds, he replied: ‘Mr Ramsay is my painter, my Lord.’ Reynolds tried to gain royal notice with two speculative ventures – a portrait of George III as Prince of Wales (OM 1011, 401034) and an oil sketch for a depiction of his marriage to Queen Charlotte (OM 1012, 404353) – both of which remained on his hands. Reynolds was knighted by George III, made first president of the Royal Academy and Principal Painter to the King upon Ramsay’s death in 1784, but never asked to paint anything. That the Royal Collection has a fine group of Reynolds is entirely thanks to George IV, who commissioned portraits at the end of the artist’s life and acquired many examples of his earlier work. This is one of a group of highly personal works (OM 1008, 400699, OM 1011, 401034, OM 1029-31, 404695-6 and 405712) obtained by him at various times from Reynolds’s niece and heiress, Mary Palmer, Marchioness of Thomond (1750-1820). This one was donated by her in 1814. Cymon and Iphigenia is an important history painting dating from Reynolds’s final years. It was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1789 and was therefore one of his last works. It was engraved on three occasions and an enamel copy was made by Henry Bone for George IV. A smaller, unfinished copy by William Etty is in York City Art Gallery. The subject is taken from Giovanni Boccaccio’s fourteenth-century collection of stories, the Decameron. Cymon was the oaffish son of a Cyprian noble who was confined by his father to his country estates. While out wandering on the estate one summer morning, he came upon Iphigenia asleep by a stream and was instantly struck by her beauty. The love thus kindled had the power to transform Cymon from country bumpkin to elegant courtier and enabled him to win Iphigenia’s hand in marriage. The figure of Iphigenia is inspired by the Venetian tradition of the female nude; in particular the works of Titian, such as the Venus of Urbino (Uffizi, Florence) and the Venus del Pardo (Louvre, Paris). Reynolds also shows an awareness of the paintings of Correggio. William Seguier, the Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures refused to clean the painting when it entered the Collection on the grounds ‘that in attempting to remove [the dirt] we should destroy some of the beautiful glazings’. Nonetheless, Cymon and Iphigenia is a supreme example of Reynolds’s powers of composition.
References Royal Collection (UK) ID: 404695 Edit this at Wikidata
Source/Photographer https://www.rct.uk/collection/404695/cymon-and-iphigenia
Other versions

Licensing[edit]

Public domain

This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or fewer.

You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States. Note that a few countries have copyright terms longer than 70 years: Mexico has 100 years, Jamaica has 95 years, Colombia has 80 years, and Guatemala and Samoa have 75 years. This image may not be in the public domain in these countries, which moreover do not implement the rule of the shorter term. Honduras has a general copyright term of 75 years, but it does implement the rule of the shorter term. Copyright may extend on works created by French who died for France in World War II (more information), Russians who served in the Eastern Front of World War II (known as the Great Patriotic War in Russia) and posthumously rehabilitated victims of Soviet repressions (more information).

This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current19:38, 8 May 2020Thumbnail for version as of 19:38, 8 May 2020594 × 500 (242 KB)Shakko (talk | contribs){{Information |Description=Cymon and Iphigenia. c.1775-89. Oil on canvas | 143.2 x 171.6 cm (support, canvas/panel/str external) Royal Collection Trust. RCIN 404695. When George III was asked by Lord Eglinton to sit for the most fashionable portrait painter of the day, Joshua Reynolds, he replied: ‘Mr Ramsay is my painter, my Lord.’ Reynolds tried to gain royal notice with two speculative ventures – a portrait of George III as Prince of Wales (OM 1011, 401034) and an oil sketch for a depicti...

You cannot overwrite this file.

File usage on other wikis

The following other wikis use this file:

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Cymon_and_Iphigenia_by_J.Reynolds_(c.1775-89).jpg&oldid=872450040"