Profile portrait of a woman in a medallion supported by putti
French Painter
18th century
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Overall: 19 5/8 × 43 3/4 in. (49.8 × 111.1 cm)
Classification
Paintings-Decorative
Culture
French
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906
Accession Number
07.225.472
Tags
PortraitsProfilesWomenPutti
About the Artist
French Painter
"French Painter" is a scholarly attribution designation used by art historians and museum curators to catalogue paintings produced in France — or by artists trained in the French tradition — when the specific creator cannot be identified with confidence. Rather than leave a work without provenance context or assign it speculatively to a named artist, curators apply this designation alongside an ap...