Artwork Details
- Title
- Portrait of a Woman with a Shawl
- Artist
- Date
- ca. 1825-1850
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 35 1⁄4 x 26 in. (89.5 x 66.0 cm.)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- oil on canvas
- Classifications
- Keywords
- Portrait female — unidentified — waist length
- Object Number
- 1986.65.109
Artwork Description
Erastus Salisbury Field painted this portrait while working as a traveling portrait painter, fulfilling commissions around the Connecticut River valley. Portrait of a Woman with a Shawl is typical of Field’s plain-style portraits, with simplified forms and few shadows. Such portraits contrast with his later dreamscapes and historical and biblical scenes, which are often rich in fantastic and humorous details.