Portrait of a young woman by Angelika Kaufman

Portrait of a young woman by Angelika Kaufman

Painting by the Swiss artist Angelica Kaufman “Portrait of a Young Woman”. The size of the picture is 130 x 102 cm, canvas, oil. In 1781, Angelika Kaufman returned to the capital of Italy and continued to write portraits of noble, famous and wealthy people.

In Rome, Kaufman met Johann Wolfgang Goethe, wrote a portrait of a great writer; their meeting then grew into a close friendship. The last exhibition of paintings by the master of Rococo painting and neoclassicism, the artist Angelika Kaufman was held in 1797 in Rome.

In 1810, the biography of Kaufman was written by the famous Italian historian Giovanni Battista de Rossi. In the future, the story of life and work of Angelika Kaufman became more than once the subject of novels, short stories, poems, and other poetic works.

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