eprintid: 5408
rev_number: 20
eprint_status: archive
userid: 4
dir: disk0/00/00/54/08
datestamp: 2017-10-20 13:48:31
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status_changed: 2017-10-20 13:48:31
type: article
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Sammern, Romana
title: Woman in bed by Matthew William Peters (1742-1814). Titian, Reynolds, and a pictorial revenge
subjects: ddc-750
divisions: i-9
cterms_swd: Peters, Matthew William / Woman in bed
cterms_swd: Grosvenor, Richard Grosvenor <Earl>
abstract: After a stay in Venice and Rome between 1776 and 1779, the painter Matthew William Peters (1742-1814) rekindled his career in England by painting erotic pictures of women. Immediately after his return from Italy in 1776, Peters painted Woman in Bed for Edward Lloyd Richard Grosvenor, 1st Earl Grosvenor (1731– 1802). This article argues that Lord Grosvenor commissioned Peters' Woman in Bed in response to the adultery trial in order to restore his honour as libertine. Challenging both, a classical and a modern British authority (Titian and Reynolds, respectively), Peters simultaneously developed a pictorial encounter with Italy, a "modern" British response to the Italian tradition and a form of pictorial revenge for the patron.
abstract_translated_lang: eng
date: 2016
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/artdok.00005408
ppn_swb: 1656737213
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-artdok-54086
language: eng
bibsort: SAMMERNROMWOMANINBED2016
full_text_status: public
publication: The British art journal
volume: 16
number: 3
pagerange: 20-31
oa_type: green
laender: LGb
themen: T11
themen: T25
citation:   Sammern, Romana  (2016) Woman in bed by Matthew William Peters (1742-1814). Titian, Reynolds, and a pictorial revenge.   In:  The British art journal, 16 (2016), Nr. 3.   pp. 20-31      
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/5408/1/Sammern_Woman_in_bed_2016.pdf