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Title
Mignon
1890
Artist
Elizabeth Stanthope Forbes
England
29 Dec 1859 - 16 Mar 1912
Details
Date
1890
Materials used
oil on canvas on hardboard
Dimensions
102.3 x 72.2 cm board; 114.3 x 84.4 x 6.0 cm frame
Signature & date
Signed l.l., black oil [artist's monogram] "EAF". Not dated.
Credit
Purchased 1892
Accession number
672
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Elizabeth Stanthope Forbes
Mignon
Shown in 4 exhibitions
Exhibition history
Royal Academy of Arts, 1890, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1890–1890
Unknown, Royal Anglo-Australian Society of Artists, Sydney 1892, Exhibition Venue Unknown, 1892–1892
Artist's Glue, Lewers Bequest and Penrith Regional Art Gallery, Emu Plains, 04 Mar 1985–30 Jun 1985
Victorian Childhood, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 08 Feb 1999–19 Mar 1999
Provenance
Royal Anglo-Australian Society of Artists, Sydney/New South Wales/Australia, Purchased by the AGNSW from the Royal Anglo-Australian Society of Artists1892
Referenced in 19 publications
Bibliography
M H Spielmann, Magazine of art, ‘Current art: the Royal Academy – II', London, 1890, pp 253–60: p 258.
Unknown, Stanhope A Forbes, ARA, and Elizabeth Stanhope Forbes, ARWS, London, 1906, p 69. Discusses 1892 'Mignon'.
Australian News, Unknown, 01 Apr 1892, p 10, illus p 10.
Renée Free, Art Gallery of New South Wales catalogue of British paintings, Sydney, 1987, p 63, illus p 63.
Anne Kirker and Peter Tomory, British painting 1800–1990 in Australian and New Zealand public collections, Sydney, 1997, p 81, no 676.
The exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts … the one hundred and twenty-second, London, 1890, p 10, no 182.
Royal Academy Pictures, London, 1890, illus p 90. Supplement to the Magazine of Art, 1890, part 3.
Pall Mall Gazette "Extra", 'The Pictures of 1890', London, 05 May 1890, illus p 64.
Athenaeum, 'The Royal Academy (second notice)', London, 17 May 1890, pp 644–47: p 645.
Exhibition of the British art gallery by the Royal Anglo-Australian Society of Artists, with which is associated the German art gallery, and a selection of pictures by Australian artists: illustrated catalogue, Melbourne, 1892, p 57, no 176, illus with sketch p 58.
Sydney Morning Herald, 'Review of the year 1892: art', Sydney, 31 Dec 1892, pp 5–6: p 6.
National Art Gallery of New South Wales (report of trustees for the year 1892), Sydney, (1893), p 2.
Algernon Graves, The Royal Academy of Arts: a complete dictionary of contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904, London, 1905-1906, vol 3, 1905, p 135.
National Art Gallery of NSW: illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1906, p 55, no 150.
National Art Gallery of NSW illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1917, p 47, no 136.
National Art Gallery of NSW: illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1924, p 69, no 203.
Art Gallery of New South Wales annual report 1993 [for the year ended 30 June 1993], Sydney, 1993, p 26. Conservation treatment.
Unknown and Unknown, Singing from the walls: the life and art of Elizabeth Forbes, Bristol, 2000, pp 93–94, 170, 185, no 4.178.
Unknown, A fragile modernism: Whistler and his impressionist followers, New Haven, 2007, p 119, col illus p 121.