Lady Seated at a Table (recto); Dancing Figures (verso)

George Romney

1775 or later

Lady Seated at a Table (recto); Dancing Figures (verso) by George Romney

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 · 17341802

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...

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