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- Sir William Rothenstein 1872–1945
- Medium
- Chalk on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 381 × 283 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by Sir John Rothenstein through the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1970
- Reference
- T01248
Summary
This is a squared-up study for The Princess Badroulbadour, 1908 (Tate Gallery N03953), a portrait of the artist's three children in fancy dress as characters from the 'Aladdin' story in The Arabian Nights. The boy in the study is the artist's elder son, John. In the painting, his right rather than his left leg is concealed by his robes, and the drapery of his turban falls to his right shoulder. John was the Director of the Tate Gallery from 1938 to 1964. He is represented in a 1938 oil painting by his father, Portrait of Sir John Rothenstein C.B.E. (Tate Gallery T01869). The Tate Gallery also owns a second study for The Princess Badroulbadour (Tate Gallery T03682).
Further
reading:
Robert Speaight, William Rothenstein: The Portrait of an Artist in his Time, London 1962, pp.225, 325
Terry Riggs
January 1998
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Catalogue entry
Sir William Rothenstein 1872–1945
T01248 Working Drawing for the Boy in ‘The Princess Badroulbadour 1908
Not inscribed.
Chalk on paper, 15 x 11¿ (38 x 28).
Presented by Sir John Rothenstein through the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1970.
A squared-up study for N03953. The boy represented is the artist’s elder son John, who was the Director of the Tate Gallery 1938–64. In the painting, his right rather than his left leg is concealed by his robes, and the drapery of his turban falls to his right shoulder.
Published in The Tate Gallery Report 1970–1972, London 1972.
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