Rosina Ferrara

Captivated by her exotic beauty, a variety of 19th-century artists, including Charles Sprague Pearce, Frank Hyde, and George Randolph Barse, made works of art of her.

[9] In 1891 in Rome, she married American painter George Randolph Barse of Detroit and moved to the United States shortly after the marriage.

"[15] English painter Adrian Stokes wrote of Rosina: "It used to be very easy for artists to find models; but now the grown-up girls are rather shy of strangers, and the priests think it is dangerous for them to pose.

[6][5] Another version of the painting, A Capriote, held by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, was submitted to the Society of American Artists in New York in March 1879 for its annual exhibition.

The museum describes the painting of Rosina, "Her twisted stance echoes the forms of the branches, expressing a kinship between them of wild and natural beauty.

Charles Sprague Pearce , Study, Rosina, Capri , 1880
Frank Hyde , Rosina , c. 1880 . Rosina reclined sensually on a couch, clad in a seductive classical toga while another young girl performs on a flute
John Singer Sargent , A Capriote , 1878 [ 5 ]
John Singer Sargent , Rosina Ferrara, Head of Anacapri Girl , 1878, Berger Collection Educational Trust. Sargent, who gave the work to Frank Hyde, made an inscription in the lower right-hand corner of the painting. [ 8 ]
John Singer Sargent, Rosina , 1878, depicting Ferrara
John Singer Sargent, Capri Girl on a Rooftop , 1878, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art , Rosina Ferrara doing a tarantella dance on the rooftop [ 9 ]