File:Henri Toutin - Portrait of Lady Venetia Digby - Walters 44177.jpg

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Henri Toutin: Portrait of Lady Venetia Digby   (  )
Artist	Henri Toutin  (1614–)     Alternative names Henry Toutin Description French miniaturist Date of birth/death 28 July 1614  after 1683 date QS:P,+1683-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1683-00-00T00:00:00Z/9   Location of birth/death Châteaudun Paris Work period between circa 1632 and circa 1683 date QS:P,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1632-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1683-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 Work location Paris  Authority file : Q19829722 VIAF: 96039721 ISNI: 0000000070047905 ULAN: 500053952 SUDOC: 169833240 RKD: 78028 artist QS:P170,Q19829722
Title	Portrait of Lady Venetia Digby
Description	English: Venetia Stanley, Lady Digby, died in 1633, eight years after marrying Sir Kelm Digby at the age of 21. This portrait, signed and dated 1637, was completed after her death and is based on an earlier miniature painted in opaque watercolor by Peter Oliver (1594-1648). An inscription in Latin on the back describes the grief felt by her husband: "He tries to snatch a ghost from the funeral pyre and fights a battle with death, exhausting the skills of the artists. Everywhere he searches for thee - O, the bitterness of it - on piece of metal." Digby was in Paris in 1635-36 and probably commissioned the piece at that time. The stunning frame by Gilles Légaré (d. 1663) exemplifies a further aspect of French enamel work of the period. Henri Toutin was the first artist to exploit a new technique for painting with enamel developed by his father in 1632 that permitted both more refined detail and translucent colors on a white ground, suggesting the qualities of a delicate watercolor portrait. See most recently D. Scarisbeck, Portrait Jewels, Opulence & Intimacy from the Medici to the Romanovs (2011), p. 106, ill.
Date	1637 (Baroque era QS:P2348,Q37853 )
Medium	painted enamel on gold
Dimensions	12.5 × 8.3 cm (4.9 × 3.2 in)
Collection	Walters Art Museum    Native name Walters Art Museum Location Baltimore, United States of America Coordinates 39° 17′ 48″ N, 76° 36′ 58″ W   Established 1934  Website thewalters.org Authority file : Q210081 VIAF: 128918374 ISNI: 000000040373611X ULAN: 500279110 LCCN: no00096900 GND: 16029354-6 WorldCat institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number	44.177
Place of creation	Blois, France
Object history	Horace Walpole Dowager Countess Waldegrave Earl Waldegrave (Strawberry Hill Sale, May 6, 1842) Sir Anthony Rothschild Lady Battersea Sir George Lindsay Holford Sale, Holford Auction, Christies, London, July 13-14, 1927 [Christie, Manson and Woods, no. 129] 1927: purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore
Exhibition history	Russian Enamels. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1996-1997. Small Northern European Portraits from The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. National Gallery of Art, Washington. 2000. Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill. Yale Center for British Art, New Haven; Victoria and Albert Museum, London. 2009-2010.
Credit line	Acquired by Henry Walters, 1927
Inscriptions	Signed, verso: H.Toutin fecit 1637
Source	Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork
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