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Continental School, 18th C., oil on canvas half-length portrait of a fashionable lady. She wears a satin or silk gown with delicate lace embellishment and smiles at the viewer while she holds a pink carnation in her left hand. Her right hand opens to display her ring finger. Likely a marriage portrait commissioned on the occasion of her engagement. Unsigned. Housed in a gilt and molded wood frame. Sight: 31" H x 25" W. Framed: 39 1/2" H x 33" W.
PROVENANCE: Deaccessioned by the Hunter Museum of American Art.
CONDITION: Canvas has been relined. With scattered retouching primarily to lower third, largest to vertical line to right of sitter's head and extending from upper edge, 29" L. See U/V photography. With very faint craquelure throughout.
