Portrait of a lady with a flower vase

Fine Arts

Inventory number
2022.6.22.9.FA.GR.C1840.GB
Description
Pencil drawing portrait, enhanced with watercolour, representing a young woman sitting in a white tight-waisted dress with a low-cut neckline, decorated in the center with a golden metal brooch with a rectangular blue stone, reminding the tones of her bracelet. Her right arm is wrapped in a blue blanket while she is holding her two golden necklaces including one with a round pendant. She has a pale skin and ginger hair arranged in long ringlets from each side falling down the shoulders. 

It is an interior painting with an antique vase filled with flowers in the background with a large brown curtain just behind.
Materials
Pencil on paper
Watercolor
Glass
Origin
circa 1840 United Kingdom
Dimensions
Width : 1 cm
Length : 17 cm
Height : 19 cm