Study for 'The Bride at Her Toilet on the Day of Her Wedding'. Artist: Sir David Wilkie (British, Cults, Scotland 1785-1841 off Gibraltar). Dimensions: Sheet: 6 1/16 x 4 3/8 in. (15.4 x 11.1 cm). Date: ca. 1838.This is one of a group of sketches where Wilkie developed compositional ideas for a painting he would show at the Royal Acdemy, London in 1838 (now National Academy of Scotland, Edinburgh). Pen lines suggest movement, and wash is used to indicate shadow as the artist conveys the movements of a young woman dressing for her wedding assisted by a companion and watched by an older woman. The figure's nudity and elevated placement echo classical models, even though the subject was one of Scottish genre, and Wilkie's technique indebted to Dutch seventeenth-century masters such as Rembrandt. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

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Study for 'The Bride at Her Toilet on the Day of Her Wedding'. Artist: Sir David Wilkie (British, Cults, Scotland 1785-1841 off Gibraltar). Dimensions: Sheet: 6 1/16 x 4 3/8 in. (15.4 x 11.1 cm). Date: ca. 1838.This is one of a group of sketches where Wilkie developed compositional ideas for a painting he would show at the Royal Acdemy, London in 1838 (now National Academy of Scotland, Edinburgh). Pen lines suggest movement, and wash is used to indicate shadow as the artist conveys the movements of a young woman dressing for her wedding assisted by a companion and watched by an older woman. The figure's nudity and elevated placement echo classical models, even though the subject was one of Scottish genre, and Wilkie's technique indebted to Dutch seventeenth-century masters such as Rembrandt. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

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