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| Title | Female Portrait | |
| Alternative Title | Rosa Bonheur's Self-Portrait | |
| Collection | Sheffield Galleries & Museums Trust | |
| Artist | Unknown Previously attributed to Bonheur, Rosa (French animal painter, 1822-1899) |
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| Date | 1854 (dated) | |
| Signed | yes | |
| Description | This very small-scale painting shows a half-length female painter, holding a paint brush with her right hand and her palette of colours with her left hand. | |
| Current Accession Number | 230 | |
| Inscription | front ll '[...] 1854.' | |
| Subject | portrait | |
| Measurements | 13.0 x 13 cm.0 cm (estimate) | |
| Material | oil on panel | |
| Acquisition Details | Given by J. G. Graves 1942 | |
| Notes | This painting has been known in the museum as Rosa Bonheur's Self-Portrait. However, the similarities to portraits of her are scarce and not convincing. Consequently, it seems more likely that this little painting is the representation of an anonymous nineteenth-century female painter. | |
| Rights Owner | Sheffield Galleries & Museums Trust | |
| Author | Irene Galandra | |