PORTRAIT OF HENRIETTE LUARD
Artist
RALPH EARL
(1751-1801)
Date1783
CountryUSA
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions127 x 92.7 cm (50 x 36 1/2") (Image)
Frame: 149.9 x 122.6 cm (59 x 48 1/4")
Frame: 149.9 x 122.6 cm (59 x 48 1/4")
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineBrigham Young University Museum of Art, purchased with funds provided by Ira and Mary Lou Fulton.
Object number030170000
DescriptionThe subject depicted nearly full length, seated in front of a drapery in a library chair near a Hepplewhite Pembroke table and a bookcase filled with volumes. She is posed at a slight right angle, her elbow resting on the chair arms, hands one over the other, one hand holding what appears to be a book she has been reading. A green drape partly covers the bookcase and the area behind the sitter and the table. The subject wears a white tafetta or satin gown with a wide blue fringed sash and lace fichu joined at her thick brown upswept hair. She looks directly at the viewer, an emblem of the British upper class from this era.On View
Not on view
JULIAN ALDEN WEIR
