The image is a portrait showing the upper body of a woman seated next to a wooden table. She is positioned facing slightly to the right, with her arm resting on the table and holding a small pink rose in her left hand. Her facial features include a calm expression, rosy cheeks, and visible brown eyes under dark, curly hair that frames her face, partly obscured by a white lace cap with decorative fabric elements. She is wearing a white, high-waisted gown with long sleeves with lace trim and delicate embroidery details. On the table, there is a small white vase with similar pink roses, adding…
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Hannah Lemmon Corcoran (Mrs. Thomas Corcoran)

painter Charles Peale Polk (American, 1767 - 1822)

c. 1802/1810

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 91.44 × 66.36 cm (36 × 26 1/8 in.) ; framed: 109.22 × 83.19 × 8.26 cm (43 × 32 3/4 × 3 1/4 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Arthur Hellen, 1947)
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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