Éléonore Suce la Blessure d’Edouard I Roi d’Angleterre / Eleonora Sucking the Venom out of the wound which Edward I, her Royal Consort, received from a poisoned dagger by an assassin in Palestine

Location

Country: France
City: Strasbourg
Place: UK Delegation to Council of Europe

Angelica Kauffman was a painter of portraits, genre, allegorical, classical, mythological and historical subjects. Born in Switzerland, she was educated in Florence and Rome, before settling in London in 1766. She became a founder and the first woman member of the Royal Academy, and worked on a wide range of artistic commissions in England until 1781, when she married the Venetian painter Antonio Zucchi. The couple retired first to Venice and then to Rome. Here, she continued to paint portraits, particularly of British sitters, and ran a Salon frequented by Italian sculptor Antonio Canova, German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and others. Kauffman was a celebrated and successful artist by the time of her death in Rome, in November 1807.

Places

Subjects

female portrait, royal portrait, male portrait, man, woman, armour, helmet, poison, wound, spear, shield, dagger, sword, soldier, tent/marquee, bed

Materials & Techniques

engraving, colour stipple engraving

Artist

Angelica Kauffman (1741 - 1807)
Mlle. Bareuille
D P Pariset (1740 - )

Title

Éléonore Suce la Blessure d’Edouard I Roi d’Angleterre / Eleonora Sucking the Venom out of the wound which Edward I, her Royal Consort, received from a poisoned dagger by an assassin in Palestine

Date

published 1 March 1780

Medium

Colour stipple engraving

Acquisition

Purchased from Christie's, 26 October 1976

GAC number

12521