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The Flight of Florimell, (painting). Artist:  Allston, Washington, 1779-1843, painter. Title:  The Flight of Florimell, (painting). Dates:  1819. Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  36 x 28 in. (91.4 x 71.1 cm) Description:  A scene from Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene with the figure of Florimell riding a white horse at center. She turns her head to the right to look behind her. Two armored figures with horses stand at left, slightly hidden by the brush of the forest landscape. Subject:  Literature -- Spenser -- Faerie Queene Literature -- Character -- Florimell Animal -- Horse Landscape -- Forest Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan 48202 Accession Number: 44.165 Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of Baldwin, Loammi, 1827. Baldwin, James F., 1839. Baldwin, George R., Mrs., 1876. M. Knoedler & Co., New York, New York 1944. Acquired 1944. References:  "American paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts; volume 1: Works by artists born by 1816," New York : Hudson Hills Press, 1991, no. 2. "Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts; a checklist of the paintings acquired before June 1965," Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1965. Illustration:  Image on file. "American paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts; volume 1: Works by artists born by 1816," New York : Hudson Hills Press, 1991, pg. 19. 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 24150012   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 24150012 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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