Abstract
Abstract: This article explores the provenance of two portraits of the eighteenth-century Swiss painter Angelica Kauffman. One the original self-portrait and the other evidently a contemporary copy, the paintings have intersecting histories that have led to confusion and some enduring mysteries. The author sifts through documentary sources and consults with experts at the Angelika Kauffmann Research Project to firmly establish which is the original self-portrait and—even more tantalizingly—attempt to reconstruct the paintings' distinct but intertwining histories, speculate on the identity of the copyist, and explain how various misunderstandings (some of which linger into the present day) might have occurred.
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