Shown from the knees up, a light-skinned man and woman are seated side-by-side on grassy rise in a landscape in this horizontal portrait painting. To our left, the man leans heavily toward the woman to our right, propped on one elbow near her hip. She sits upright, resting one hand over his forearm and wrist. The clean-shaven man looks at her with blue eyes under gray, arched brows. He has a straight nose, round cheeks, a hint of a double chin, and his pale pink lips are closed in a slight smile. He wears a forest-green coat, a white waistcoat embroidered with golden yellow, a white shirt…
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Benjamin and Eleanor Ridgely Laming

painter Charles Willson Peale (American, 1741 - 1827)

1788

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 106 x 152.5 cm (41 3/4 x 60 1/16 in.) ; framed: 125.1 x 171.5 x 7 cm (49 1/4 x 67 1/2 x 2 3/4 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Gift of Morris Schapiro
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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