Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Gertrude Elizabeth (née Blood), Lady Colin Campbell NPG 1630

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Giovanni Boldini

In this magnificent life-size portrait, Italian painter Giovanni Boldini pays special attention to Campbell's black satin evening dress and the way it clings to her body. The elongated lines of her anatomy are reminiscent of both the sinuous contours of the contemporary Art Nouveau aesthetic, and elegantly exaggerated fashion drawings.

The Gallery faced a delicate challenge when this portrait was bequeathed to them in 1911. Lady Colin Campbell had gained notoriety in high society with a scandalous divorce case in 1886. Although she... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.