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Portrait of a Girl

Collection Type

  • Art

Date

1830

GUSN

GUSN-9863

Description

Portrait of a young girl holding a wooden doll, wearing a pink dress and seated on a stenciled or carpeted floor. The baseboard of the room can be seen behind the girl; to her left is an opening covered with red drapery through which can be seen a landscape vignette. Original stretchers.

Details

Descriptive Terms

portraits
paintings (visual works)
oil paint (paint)
canvas
childhood
Picture
Portrait
Oil on Canvas
Childhood
Portrait

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

26 x 32 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Given in honor of Horace and Mildred Frost by their children

Accession Number

1996.35

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