Portrait of Countess Albazzi [SEP] collection
Portrait of Countess Albazzi
Portrait of Countess Albazzi, a painting by Édouard Manet, became a part of the Thannhauser Collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum as a bequest of Hilde Thannhauser.
This portrait by Manet is a pastel executed on a very fine canvas stretched over wood. Off-white priming was used, the pastel is friable, and there are a number of tiny losses throughout the surface of the canvas.
"Portrait of Countess Albazzi" was among Manet's last works, and has been shown in
is also among the portraits mentioned by John Loveday.
- "Sir Alexander Temple" by Cornelius Johnson, signed and dated 1620. It has an erroneous inscription identifying the sitter as "Ld Gust Hamilton". Vertue mentions a portrait of Lord Hamilton when he visited Burford in 1729. This may be the portrait he was referring to. Along with the Countess of Arundel and the Countess of Portland, this portrait was subsequently part of the Northwick Park collection and it is now in the Yale Center for British Art.