Artwork Details
- Title
- Una, Lady Troubridge
- Artist
- Date
- 1924
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 50 1⁄8 x 30 1⁄8 in. (127.3 x 76.4 cm.)
- Credit Line
- Gift of the artist
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- oil on canvas
- Classifications
- Subjects
- Animal — dog — dachshund
- Portrait female — Troubridge, Una
- Dress — accessory — eye wear
- Occupation — other — aristocrat
- Object Number
- 1966.49.6
Artwork Description
Una Troubridge was a British aristocrat, literary translator, and the lover of Radclyffe Hall, author of the 1928 pathbreaking lesbian novel, The Well of Loneliness. Troubridge appears with a sense of formality and importance typical of upper-class portraiture, but with the sitter's prized dachshunds in place of the traditional hunting dog. Troubridge's impeccably tailored clothing, cravat, and bobbed hair convey the fashionable and daring androgyny associated with the so-called new woman. Her monocle suggested multiple symbolic associations to contemporary British audiences: it alluded to Troubridge's upper-class status, her Englishness, her sense of rebellion, and possibly her lesbian identity.
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Born: Rome, Italy 1874–Died: Nice, France 1970
Una, Lady Troubridge
1924, oil on canvas
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