Cinderella About to Try on the Glass Slipper

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Cinderella About to Try on the Glass Slipper
Richard Redgrave - Cinderella About to Try on the Glass Slipper.jpg
Artist Richard Redgrave
Year1842
Type Oil on canvas, history painting
Dimensions106.7 cm× 142.2 cm(42.0 in× 56.0 in)
Location Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Cinderella About to Try on the Glass Slipper is an 1842 oil painting by the British artist Richard Redgrave. [1] [2] Inspired by the folk tale Cinderella, it depicts the moment that that the heroine is about to try on the glass slipper, to the disbelief of her mean stepsisters. [3]

The painting was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1842 held at the National Gallery in London. It was owned by the art collector John Sheepshanks who in 1857 donated it to the Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington. [4]

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