This painting depicts a seated woman looking off to the left, resting her head on her right hand, our left, with her elbow on an abstract green surface. She has a fair complexion, a long nose, pale eyebrows, pale lips in a neutral expression, and reddish-brown hair styled up with a blue clip. She is wearing a pale mauve dress and shawl with a deep neckline, blue-green ribbon details, and puffed sleeves. A thin black belt is tied around her waist and there is a silver bracelet on her forearm. The background is painted in soft shades of blue and green, with a few highlights of pale yellow. An…
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Annetta Coke

painter Sir Joshua Reynolds (British, 1723 - 1792)

1758

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 75.57 × 62.87 cm (29 3/4 × 24 3/4 in.) ; framed: 100.01 × 87.31 × 8.57 cm (39 3/8 × 34 3/8 × 3 3/8 in.)
Culture
British
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection, 1926)
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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