The Best Robe
Louisa Anne Stuart, Marchioness of Waterford (Paris 1818 – Ford 1891)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1862 - 1868
Materials
Brush and sepia and grey washes over pencil, with some brown watercolour on paper
Measurements
218 x 158 mm
Order this imageCollection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 434377
Summary
Brush and sepia and grey washes over pencil, with some brown watercolour on paper, The Best robe by Louisa Anne Stuart, Marchioness of Waterford (Paris 1818 – Ford 1891), 1862/68. Inscribed - No 6 (above)The best robe (pencil) (below) A young male figure Seated, centre, slightly on the Cross so that his legs are Directed towards the right Foreground. From behind another Older man puts a necklace about His neck.. Another kneeling figure attends his feet. A third figure, In sketchy outline, stands in the right background. Biblical Reference - 'Bring forth The best robe', Luke 15, v.22. Literature - A work of this title is listed as being by Louisa Waterford in TNL, vol. III, p.216. Related Works Comments - The Return of the Prodigal lent by Adelaide Countess Brownlow to the Carlton House Terrace Exhibition in 1910, Catalogue No.5.
Provenance
Purchased with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) from Edward John Peregrine Cust, 7th Baron Brownlow, C. St J. (b.1936) in 1984
Makers and roles
Louisa Anne Stuart, Marchioness of Waterford (Paris 1818 – Ford 1891), artist