Portrait of Emma Hamilton
Medium
Black and white chalk, on gray prepared paper
Dimensions
sheet: 14 3/16 x 16 11/16 in. (36 x 42.4 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, several members of The Chairman's Council Gifts, 2003
Accession Number
2003.87
Tags
About the Artist
Angelica Kauffmann|Lady Emma Hamilton · 1741–1807
Swiss painter and etcher, and one of the few women artists of the time working in the Neo-Classical style to specialize in both portraits and subject pictures. Her famous sitters include the family of George III in Britain, Grand-Duke Paul and Prince Nikolay Yusupov in Russia, Stanislav II Poniatowski and Stanislav Kostka Potocki in Poland, Queen Caroline of Naples and Emperor Joseph II of Austria...