Comments on: Feel Art Again: “A Lady in a Fur Wrap”

By: ColinC

ColinC — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:04:00 +0000

Nice article. “A Lady In a Fur Wrap” is one of my favourite paintings and (fortunately for me) it’s in Glasgow, where I live. I too followed the debate/controversy when it was aired in the national press a few years back but as the writer of the article here says, no progress was made (and as far as I know, the x-ray results, if it ever occurred, were not publicised).

To me, this *does* look like an El Greco, as the figure is slim and the composition brightly (even slightly dramatically) lit with a dark background. It’s not as distorted as some of his other portraits though (which some scholars I believe put down to a kind of tunnel vision which the artist may have suffered). I think though that the argument against El Greco being the artist because this is an unusual work for him doesn’t really logically follow – because he created nothing else like the famous, stormy landscape “View of Toledo” – and yet that was definitely by him!

By: Andréa

Andréa — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 21:14:05 +0000

Andy: The only articles I could find on the subject were from early 2004, discussing that the painting was to be x-rayed. I can’t find any from after, so either it was not x-rayed, or nothing new came out of the x-ray. Sorry I can’t clear the subject up more!

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:14:30 +0000

#3 says: “in 2004, the painting was to be X-rayed in an attempt to better determine authorship”… so, what happened? Was it x-rayed? What was determined?

By: Emma

Emma — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 17:17:23 +0000

There is an El Greco painting at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri titled “St. Mary Magdalene in Penitence” (c. 1580). It is of a woman and, I thought, relatively well known. You should look for an image of it; it’s beautiful.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 06:11:21 +0000

There is another El Greco portrait of a lady entitled, surprisingly enough, “Portrait of a Lady” on exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

By: Andréa

Andréa — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 01:40:01 +0000

Miss Nae: I have not yet done any posts on Caravaggio, but I will look into his work and perhaps do a post in the near future. Thanks for the suggestion!

By: Miss Nae

Miss Nae — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 00:30:09 +0000

I love this blog and how it show the details of each artwork that were not known to the common eye. Have you done any Feel Art Again blogs about Caravaggio?