[Lemon Tree] Garden of Villa La Badia, Florence

Object Details

Title:

Date:

1923

Artist:

Medium:

Sanguine pastel on paper

Dimensions

23 7/8 x 18 3/4 in.

Classification

Drawings-watercolors

Credit Line:

Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2015

Description

[bottom left of paper in graphite]: Violet Oakley / 1923; [bottom mat in graphite]: Mary Nixon at her Italian Villa / or Georgina Tarnofsky at her " "; [verso upper left in graphite]: [Lemon Tree] - Garden of Villa La Badia - Florence / Florence / $200Although Horace Oakley owned Villa La Badia, the female portrayed could be Mary Nixon. In a photograph of her posing for Oakley’s A Florentine Lady, Nixon wears a similar hairstyle and tunic.

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