Eleanor of Aquitaine
Date1983
Artist
Grace Hartigan
(American painter, 1922–2008)
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions77 3/4 × 71 3/4 in. (197.5 × 182.2 cm)
frame: 78 1/2 × 72 1/2 in. (199.4 × 184.2 cm)
frame: 78 1/2 × 72 1/2 in. (199.4 × 184.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Fay and Alfred Chandler, 1995
Object number1995-13
On View
On viewCollections
ClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextEleanor of Aquitaine (1122–1204) was the Queen of France and later Queen of England. Grace Hartigan’s painting, from a series entitled Great Queens and Empresses, was inspired by a book of historical paper dolls. The dual visions of Eleanor, in the painting and the book, perhaps reference her public and private lives.
