Portrait of a Young Girl

Portrait of a Young Girl by Thomas Seir Cummings

Medium

Painting-Miniature

Classification

Painting-Miniature

Department

Smithsonian Collection

Museum

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Credit

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase

Accession Number

1982.98.1

Tags

child

About this artwork

The young girl in this painting wears a black gown with puffed or “melon” sleeves. Fashionable ladies sometimes inflated these with removable down-filled pillows.

About the Artist

Thomas Seir Cummings · 18041894

American (born England), Bath 1804–1894 Hackensack, New Jersey

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