Amalia Lindegren - Italian Woman from Albano Seated on a Chair

Amalia Lindegren (Stockholm 1814–1891 Stockholm)

Italian Woman from Albano Seated on a Chair

titled “Albano”, in pencil
with color notations by the artist in pencil
pencil on paper, mounted on an old passe-partout
33.9 x 25.1 cm

Provenance:
Auction, Stockholm, Bukowskis, Förteckning öfver… Som tillhört… genre and portrait painter Amalia Lindegren, October 29, 1892, listed under V. Handteckningar ur Amalia Lindegrens portfölj, no. 170 or 171, “Kostymstudier. Blyerts”, sold for 6 kr 50 öre and 7 kr respectively, both purchased by Lanzki.

References:

• Exhibition catalog, Stockholm, Konstakademien, Retrospektiv Konstutställning, March 23–May 22, 1898.
• Exhibition catalog, Stockholm, Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Amalia Lindegren, April–June 1974.
• E.-L. Bengtsson, Amalia Lindegren: Aspects of a 19th Century Artist, in Woman's Art Journal, Vol. 5, No. 2, 1984–85, pp. 16–20.
• E.-L. Bengtsson, Verklighetens poesi. Svenska genrebilder 1825–1880, 2000.
• Exhibition catalog, L. Lantz, Katten i konsten på Nationalmuseum, 2006.
• E.-L. Bengtsson, En kämpande själ och den svenska konstens primadonna. Sophie Adlersparre och Amalia Lindegren, in Exhibition catalog, Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, Stolthet & fördom: kvinna och konstnär i Frankrike och Sverige 1750–1860, September 27, 2012–January 20, 2013.

Essay:
Executed during the artist’s stay in Rome from autumn 1854 to June 1855. In Rome, she painted her most famous work, Girl with an Orange, which was acquired in 1856 as part of Sweden’s first state-funded art purchase (Nationalmuseum NM 991). Lindegren was the first Swedish female artist to receive a travel grant from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts.