, 2008. Fibreglass stone and airplane. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Purchased 2011. Photo © Roman März](/images/content/menuSeeGallery.png)
Benjamin West
The Death of General Wolfe (Detail), 1770
oil on canvas
152.6 x 214.5 cm
Transfer from the Canadian War Memorials, 1921 (Gift of the 2nd Duke of Westminster, England, 1918)
National Gallery of Canada (no. 8007)
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Standing Female Figure, c. 1530-1540
Jacopo Pontormo
Italian, 1494
- 1557
black chalk on ivory laid paper
25.1 x 38.3 cm
Purchased 2004
National Gallery of Canada (no. 41370v)
While less well preserved than the recto, the verso is certainly also by Pontormo himself. The extreme pathos and powerful action embodied in this figure would be appropriate for an Expulsion from the Garden, but the identification of the subject, like that of the recto, remains elusive.
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