Shown from the hips up, a young woman with pale skin, pink cheeks, and copper-red hair sits gazing at us in this vertical portrait painting. She has wide-set, brown eyes, a pointed chin, and her pink lips are closed with a mere hint of a smile. Curls frame her forehead and face, and the rest of her hair is pulled up at the back of her head. She sits on a chair upholstered dusky rose-pink chair with her body angled to our right. Her left arm, on our right, rests on the curved back of the chair, and her fingers are interlaced. Her white gown has a low, scooped neckline trimmed with ruffles and…
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Ann Barry

painter Gilbert Stuart (American, 1755 - 1828)

1803/1805

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 74.3 x 61 cm (29 1/4 x 24 in.) ; framed: 94.8 x 81.4 x 8.2 cm (37 5/16 x 32 1/16 x 3 1/4 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Gift of Jean McGinley Draper
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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