Portrait of a Man and Portrait of a Woman (pair)
Medium
watercolor on ivory in a period gold and hair frame
Dimensions
framed: 9.2 × 7.7 cm · sight: 6.7 × 5.3 cm
Classification
Portrait Miniature
Department
European Painting and Sculpture
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
The Edward B. Greene Collection
Accession Number
1941.562
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About this artwork
The man's powdered hair is tied with a dark bow below the shoulders. He has gray eyes and wears a greenish-gray coat, white shirt, and cravat tied in a bow under his chin. The background is very pale, with ivory ground visible, but faintly light blue close to the head. Among the hallmarks of Nathaniel Plimer’s technique was the use of delicate stippling for the shadows of the face and the application of individual dots of paint to create the lower lid eyelashes. The woman wears a wide, white rib...