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Caprice. Verso: Masked Woman with a White Mouse

Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898)

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Caprice. Verso: Masked Woman with a White Mouse
Caprice. Verso: Masked Woman with a White Mouse
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This is the only known oil painting by the illustrator Aubrey Beardsley and was painted in the studio of Walter Sickert. It comprises two pictures on one canvas. Caprice, in which a woman is invited through a doorway by a dwarf, and on the back, Woman with a White Mouse. Both are ambiguous scenes that appear to represent carnival. Caprice derives from the drawing Comedy Ballet of Marionettes I which appeared in the ‘Yellow Book’ in 1894. Like Beardsley’s drawings, Caprice simplifies shape and colour to strengthen the effect.

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Title

Caprice. Verso: Masked Woman with a White Mouse

Date

c.1894

Medium

Oil on canvas

Measurements

H 76.2 x W 63.5 cm

Accession number

N03815

Acquisition method

Purchased 1923

Work type

Painting

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Aubrey Beardsley

1872–1898

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