Caption
a Portrait of a man in a green tailcoat with red lapels, head of the family; b girl and boy with a sheep; c woman in an empire dress with her daughter at the harpsichord; unknown artist. Subjects: boys, children, girls, genre scenes in the interior, women, costumes, men, animals, group portraits, family, dresses, city views, siblings, foreign miniatures, toys, plants, trees, tailcoats, empire style, hats, festoons, parks, gardens, landscapes. Date: 1800. Medium/format: miniature. Dimensions: height 19.0 cm, width 23.9 cm., A rectangular dark brown leather panel with an ornate embossed border surrounds three framed miniature paintings set into the center; at the top center an oval portrait shows a light-skinned older person with powdered white hair wearing a green coat with a red collar and a white cravat, set against a brown background and enclosed in a thin gold frame; below, two octagonal-cornered rectangular miniatures sit side by side within gold borders: the left miniature depicts two light-skinned children beside a white dog, one child in a white dress holding flowers and the other in darker clothing with a black hat and blue sash, against a leafy green background, and the right miniature shows two light-skinned seated women on a red and green interior setting, one wearing a white dress with a blue shawl and the other in a white dress with bare arms, both with dark curly hair.
Credit line
Photo12/Liszt Collection
Reference
LZT26A17_041
License type
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Available size
42.4Mb (2.2Mb) / 14.3in x 11.5in / 4292 x 3451 (300dpi)