Artwork Details
- Title
- Portrait of a Gentleman
- Artist
- Date
- ca. 1825
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- sight 3 1⁄4 x 2 5⁄8 in. (8.2 x 6.7 cm) oval
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through the Catherine Walden Myer Fund
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- watercolor on ivory
- Keywords
- Portrait male — unidentified — bust
- Object Number
- 1953.10.1
Artwork Description
This miniature is typical of Rogers’s early work, employing the oval format he would later abandon in favor of rectangular works destined for display in small hinged cases or frames. The sitter is shown in the costume of a nineteenth-century “dandy,” with a high, pointed collar and elegant velvet lapels.