Female Tumbler
1800
oil
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1800
oil
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Female Tumbler is a 1800 oil by Unknown, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
The painting shows a woman tumbling, dressed in colorful clothes. She's the main focus of the painting. The painting has an interesting history: it might have been part of a series in a palace in Tehran, where paintings like this were built into walls. The woman is painted in a style that makes her look a bit flat. To learn more about this style, look into the technique: impasto.
The painting depicts a full-length imaginary portrait of a female tumbler, executed in oil on canvas in the style prevalent during the reign of Qajar ruler Fath 'Ali Shah (1797–1834). It was one of a pair showing women performing acrobatics, likely part of a larger series of wall-mounted oil paintings from the Shah's palace in Tehran, possibly removed from a residence built by Fath 'Ali Shah. The figure is rendered with flattened forms and rich decorative detailing, reflecting the revival of oil painting in Iran under the Qajar dynasty after a period of decline following the Afghan invasion…
Read the full account in the museum source.
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