Shown from the knees up, a balding, pale-skinned man wearing a voluminous rust-red and black robe sits angled to our right in this vertical portrait painting. The man is clean-shaven, and tufts of ash-brown hair curls around his ears. He looks to our right with gray eyes under slender brows. The tip of his long nose comes to a prominent point, and his wide, thin, pale pink lips are closed. A white, ruffled ascot is tucked into the lapels of a red and black robe edged with silvery white. The fabric has a sheen, suggesting satin or silk. The man’s legs are crossed and covered with inky-black…
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John Jay

Gilbert Stuart (American, 1755 - 1828)

1794

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 131 x 102 cm (51 9/16 x 40 3/16 in.) ; framed: 164.5 x 135.9 x 11.1 cm (64 3/4 x 53 1/2 x 4 3/8 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Gift of the Jay Family
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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