Two young, pale-skinned girls wearing white stand side-by-side on a stone terrace in this vertical portrait painting. Each girl wears a long-sleeved, floor-length white dress with a ruffled collar and cuffs. The girl on the left wears a bonnet decorated with white, pink, and red flowers. Carnation-pink ribbons wrap around the crown and ripple off each side, presumably to be tied under the chin. She holds a tawny-brown book about the size of a postcard down in her right hand, to our left. She wraps her other arm around the waist of the second girl, who drapes one arm across the first girl’s…
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The Ragan Sisters

Jacob Eichholtz (American, 1776 - 1842)

1818

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 151.2 x 108 cm (59 1/2 x 42 1/2 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Cooper R. Drewry
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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