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Laetitia, Lady Lade (d. 1825)
George Stubbs·1793
Historical Context
Laetitia, Lady Lade from 1793 by George Stubbs depicts the notorious wife of Sir John Lade, herself a former courtesan. The equestrian portrait presented the lady on horseback with the same precision Stubbs brought to all his equestrian subjects. Stubbs's oil technique was grounded in exhaustive anatomical study—he spent eighteen months dissecting horses at a Lincolnshire farmhouse before painting the plates for his Anatomy of the Horse (1766)—producing an exactitude of musculature and bone...
Technical Analysis
The equestrian portrait combines Stubbs's precise horse painting with a figure rendered with careful attention to the rider's posture and bearing.
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