Vintage Oil Painting of a Woman with an Open Book, After Albert Joseph Moore
Vintage Oil Painting of a Woman with an Open Book, After Albert Joseph Moore
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A woman in a salmon-pink gown leans back on a low seat, one hand behind her head, eyes turned toward the ceiling, an open book lying beside her. This is a painted copy after Albert Joseph Moore's An Open Book of about 1884, the original being a watercolor now in the V&A. Moore built his pictures from pose, pattern, and color rather than story, and this small oil keeps that arrangement.
The painting is oil on canvas laid to a wood panel. The paint film is thin throughout, and the canvas weave reads through in the pale background and across the flesh and drapery. Raised paint is limited to the highlights of the skirt and the white band along the carpet edge. Areas of overpainting to the figure and the background were revealed under UV inspection, so the surface should not be read as untouched. The surface is matte and slightly dry in appearance, most noticeably in the flesh tones and the pink gown.
The frame is gilded, with molded foliate scroll ornament and a beaded inner edge. The corners and upper edge show losses to the gilding and ornament, with red bole visible beneath, and there is a larger loss at one upper corner. The frame is offered as it is and is not described as original to the painting.
The reverse is a dark stained wood panel with fine grain visible, scattered scratches, and two long gouges. Modern brown paper tape covers the edges and holds the panel in the frame, and it has lifted and torn at one upper corner. There the canvas is laid flat on a thin wood panel and trimmed flush with the panel edge, with no turnover. The frame back carries modern D-ring hangers, a nylon cord, and felt bumpers. The remaining edges are covered by tape and could not be seen.
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