[Lemon Tree] Garden of Villa La Badia, Florence
Date
1923Medium
Sanguine pastel on paper between hinged mats with framing lines in washCredit Line
Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2015Dimensions
23 7/8 x 18 3/4 in.Description & Inscriptions
[verso in white pencil]: St. Peter from Pincian / Hill - Rome
Although Horace Oakley owned Villa La Badia, the female portrayed could be Mary Nixon. In a photograph of her posing for Oakley’s A Florentine Lady, Nixon wears a similar hairstyle and tunic.
Although Horace Oakley owned Villa La Badia, the female portrayed could be Mary Nixon. In a photograph of her posing for Oakley’s A Florentine Lady, Nixon wears a similar hairstyle and tunic.
