# Portrait of a Lady

- Date: ca. 1800
- Medium: watercolor on ivory
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: sight 2 x 1 5/8 in. (5.1 x 4.1 cm) oval
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Catherine Walden Myer Fund
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=23438)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/6d8854affe89e8448bfff3601e2b2e57.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Painted around the beginning of the nineteenth century, this portrait shows a romantic profile of a young lady with a scarf wrapped carelessly around her disheveled hair.