PORTRAIT OF AN ITALIAN WOMAN.

Computer-adjusted to reduce age-related discolouration.

Images: Von Zengen Kunstauktionen.

  • Title(s): Portrait of an Italian woman (this web site); Portrait einer Frau mit Ohrringen [Portrait of a Woman with Earrings] (Von Zengen Kunstauktionen, 2025).
  • Description: Bust portrait of a woman, body turned to the viewer’s left, face to the viewer but eyes looking to the sitter’s left, wearing ornate, circular earrings, only the right hand visible carrying (unclear) rolled scrolls?
  • Media: Oil on canvas.
  • Dimensions: 57 x 40 cm.
  • Signature/date/other text: “S. Isabel Dacre. / Rome 1875”.
  • History:
    • 1875 – Signed and dated.
    • 1875 – Possibly the “cleverly-executed painting of an Italian girl” exhibited at the Yorkshire Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures, Leeds (The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 25 Sep 1875. p6.).
    • 2025 Nov 21-22 – Auctioned Von Zengen Kunstauktionen, Bonn, Germany, lot 1677, “Portrait einer Frau mit Ohrringen”, Öl/Lwd., doubliert, 57 x 48, unten links signiert und datiert [Dacre, Susan Isabel (1844-1933), “Portrait of a Woman with Earrings”, oil on canvas, relined, 57 x 48 cm, signed and dated lower left]”, sold: hammer €800, premium €1,086 (£955 at Nov 2025 exchange rate).
  • Location: ?

Page last updated 23 Nov 2025.