Artwork Details
- Title
- Portrait of a Lady
- Artist
- Unidentified
- Date
- ca. 1780
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 1 1⁄8 x 1 1⁄4 in. (2.9 x 3.2 cm) half oval
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- watercolor on ivory
- Subjects
- Portrait female — unidentified — head
- Object Number
- 1979.153.2
Artwork Description
Set in a locket, this mourning miniature holds the memory of a woman’s beauty and elegance. Feathers and a string of navy beads accent her hair, which is styled in the manner of late-eighteenth-century British aristocrats. The portrait’s somber mood conveys the family’s grief after the loss of a loved one.