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Recovery from Sickness, an Allegory
Joshua Reynoldsc.1768-69
Dulwich Picture Gallery
London, United Kingdom
"A mother nurses her sick child while Death is driven off by an angel. The composition appears an adaptation of Salvator Rosa's L'umana fragilità (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, PD. 53 -1958), using the same allegory of death and sickness, while the mother and child group recall Reynold's Mrs Angerstein and her Daughter of 1773 (private collection).
Dated 1768-9 by Waterhouse. DPG102 was acquired by Bourgeois at the Reynolds studio sale of 1796."
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- Title: Recovery from Sickness, an Allegory
- Creator Lifespan: 1723 - 1792
- Date: c.1768-69
- Physical Dimensions: w911 x h708 cm
- Type: Painting
- Medium: Oil
- Work Nationality: British
- Support: Canvas
- Provenance: London, Greenwood's, Sir Joshua Reynolds sale, 18 Apr. 1796, lot 16. Bt Bourgeois; London, Noel Desenfans and/or Sir Francis Bourgeois, 1796-1807: 1804 Insurance List, no. 96; London, Sir Francis Bourgeois, 1807-11; Bourgeois Bequest, 1811.
- Artist: Reynolds, Sir Joshua
- Acquisition Method: Bourgeois, Sir Peter Francis (Bequest, 1811)
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