Painting
- Title:
- Untitled
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1957.014.02
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Place of Origin:
- New England/MA
- Date:
- circa 1880
- Description:
- Portrait of a Colonial woman, unknown artist, c. 1880. Oil on paper. Bust-length portrait of woman in profile to right. Oval composition on vertical rectangle canvas with blue painted spandrels. Sitter has dark gray hair, probably in cadogan, and blue eyes. She is wearing a red dress with low neckline trimmed with a white ruffle and a broad-brimmed hat tied about the neck, and two black ostrich plumes. Brown background. Exterior and interior gilded trim frame with center parquetry paper decoration, colors are dark brown, orange, and yellow, matted and glazed.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-9.75 W-8.4 inches
- Provenance:
- One of a pair (man and woman) that once hung in the house of Hiram Thompson (1743-1812) of Woburn, MA (where Benjamin Thompson was born). Said to have been taken to Charlestown, NH.
- Credit Line:
- Bequest of Mary Hendrick Kittredge
- Subjects:
- Kittredge, Mrs. Benjamin
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