# "Who Is Sylvia? What Is She, That All the Swains Commend Her?"

- By: Edwin Austin Abbey (American, 1852 - 1911)
- Date: 1896-1899; reworked 1900
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: overall: 121.92 × 121.92 cm (48 × 48 in.) ; framed: 158.12 × 158.12 × 13.97 cm (62 1/4 × 62 1/4 × 5 1/2 in.)
- Culture: American
- Credit line: Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection, 1926)
- Museum: [National Gallery of Art](https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.177906.html)
- Rights: [Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/nga/4f4323d7-dddf-4ef5-a7ad-3928da4fed13/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)