A young lady in a green dress, seated in an interior, with ducks and guinea pigs

Details

James Northcote (Plymouth 1746 -1831)
A young lady in a green dress, seated in an interior, with ducks and guinea pigs
signed and dated 'J. Northcote Pinx 1800' (lower left)
oil on canvas
37 ½ x 32 ½ in. (95.5 x 82.5 cm.)

Provenance

James Daniell (active circa 1790 -1814);
His sale, London; Christie’s, 25 February 1809, lot 105, (18 gns. to Stevens);
Alexandre Boulogne (according to an inscription on the reverse).
Anonymous sale; Paris, Palais Galliera, 20-21 June 1966, lot 60, as 'La Jeune Fermiere'

Literature

S. Gwynn, Memorials of an Eighteenth Century Painter (James Northcote), 1898 no. 346
B. Fredericksen, The Index of Paintings Sold in the British Isles during the 19th Century, Oxford and Munich 1988-93, vol. II, p.686
J. Simon, Account Book, The Walpole Society, 1995/6, vol. 58, p. 71, no. 361.

Exhibited

Royal Academy, London, 1801, no. 61.

Special notice

All sold and unsold lots marked with a filled square in the catalogue that are not cleared from Christie’s by 5:00 pm on the day of the sale, and all sold and unsold lots not cleared from Christie’s by 5:00 pm on the fifth Friday following the sale, will be removed to the warehouse of ‘Cadogan Tate’. Please note that there will be no charge to purchasers who collect their lots within two weeks of this sale.

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Lot Essay

James Daniell, the publisher and mezzotint engraver bought a series of pictures from Northcote in 1799-1801, the present picture being the most expensive, for which he paid 30 guineas on the 10th March 1801. The other pictures were the “Lion in Love”, “Vulture and Lamb”, “Tiger and Crocodile” and “Eagle, Fox and Pheasant” (numbers 350-353 in the Account Book).

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