Lady Seated at a Table (recto); Dancing Figures (verso)
George Romney
1775 or later
Medium
Recto: pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash Verso: black chalk, pen and brown ink
Dimensions
Sheet: 10 1/8 x 11 1/8 in. (25.7 x 28.3 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1911
Accession Number
11.66.3
Tags
WomenDancingWriting
About the Artist
George Romney · 1734–1802
George Romney (1734–1802) was a British portrait painter who, alongside Sir Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough, formed the triumvirate of great English portraitists in the second half of the eighteenth century. Born in Dalton-in-Furness, Lancashire, he received his early training from the itinerant portrait painter Christopher Steele before moving to London in 1762. Romney quickly establishe...