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Portrait of a Seated Woman
circle of François-André Vincent (French, 1746–1816)
18th-19th century
- Medium
- Black chalk heightened with white chalk on brown paper
- Classification
- Drawing
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 45.5 x 30.2 cm (17 15/16 x 11 7/8 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Drawings
- Credit line
- Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
This drawing, presumably a study for a painted portrait, depicts a seated woman, dressed in a long gown and fashionable hat. Her casual pose, with one hand placed nonchalantly on her knee, her right elbow resting on the back of a chair, and a gaze unfocused on something outside the scene, gives the image an intimate informality.
