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Portrait of a Child
Raphaelle Peale (born Annapolis, MD 1774-died Philadelphia, PA 1825)
ca. 1800
- Medium
- watercolor on ivory
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- 2 1/2 x 1 7/8 in. (6.2 x 4.9 cm) oval
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Catherine Walden Myer Fund
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), 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
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
This is thought to be a painting of a child known only as “Miss Borrie.” The artist applied touches of red to the girl’s lips and cheeks in this otherwise subdued painting to emphasize her smiling expression.
