An elegantly dressed young woman, a little boy, girl, and a dog are gathered on a veranda in front of a sun-dappled landscape in this vertical portrait painting. All three people have pale skin with rosy cheeks. To our left, the woman sits facing us in front of a low, pewter-gray balustrade. She loosely embraces both children who lean onto her lap, to our right, as the shaggy, dark gray dog looks on. The woman has a slender, oval face, a long nose, rose-red lips, and hazel eyes that gaze just beyond our right shoulder. She wears a diaphanous, parchment-white gown belted at the waist and…
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Lady Elizabeth Delmé and Her Children

Sir Joshua Reynolds (British, 1723 - 1792)

1777-1779

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 238.4 x 147.2 cm (93 7/8 x 57 15/16 in.) ; framed: 266.4 x 175.3 cm (104 7/8 x 69 in.)
Culture
British
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Andrew W. Mellon Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, 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

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