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The Penance of Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucester, (painting). Artist:  Abbey, Edwin Austin, 1852-1911, painter. Title:  The Penance of Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucester, (painting). Dates:  1900. Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  49 x 85 in. (124.5 x 215.9 cm) Inscription:  (Lower left:) E. A. Abbey, 1900 signed Description:  The figure of Eleanor stands at center and walks barefoot on a rocky street. She wears a white sheet and holds a candle. The figures surrounding her wear dark clothing; her husband, Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, stands behind her and to the right are figures in dark robes. Subject:  Literature -- Shakespeare -- Henry VI Literature -- Character -- Eleanor Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213 Accession Number: 02.1 Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of Abbey, Edwin Austin, until 1902. Purchased 1902. Exhibitions:  Pan American Exposition, Buffalo, 1901, no. 54. Carnegie Institute 1901 International Exhibition, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1901, no. 1. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Seventy First Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1902, no. 25. Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915. Remarks:  This painting illustrates Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part II, act 2, scene 4. References:  Strazdes, Diana, "American paintings and sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art," New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Carnegie Museum of Art, 1992. Catalogue of Painting Collection, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, 1973, pg. 1. Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, 1990. Illustration:  Strazdes, Diana, "American paintings and sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art," New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Carnegie Museum of Art, 1992, pg. 40. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAP 46470094   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 46470094 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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