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Portrait of Emma Hamilton
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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)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, several members of The Chairman's Council Gifts, 2003

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Angelica Kauffmann

1741–1807Three LeaguesSwitzerland

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. Comment on works: Portraits; Mythology