Woman Holding a Book

Erastus Salisbury Field, c. 1835

The image shows a woman portrait from the waist up. She is seated upright, holding a book in her left hand. She has blue eyes, dark brown hair styled with rolls and a braided crown, and wears elegant 19th-century… · description from the collection

Collection data

Artist: Erastus Salisbury Field ¹
Date: c. 1835 ¹
Medium: oil on canvas ¹
Original: 5,261 × 6,662 px ¹
License: CC0 (National Gallery of Art Open Access)
Credit: National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch

Object record, National Gallery of Art

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neutral temperaturehigh contrastmid tonesportrait

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The picture shows part of the second hypostyle hall of the Temple of Seti I, the second ruler of the 19th dynasty, Abydos, where the entrances to the boat chapels are visible (right). At the bottom, the entrance to…

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Similar light, opposite temperature · computed

Lavorazione del Marmo di Arzo (a Riva San Vitale); processo di taglio, Heinz Plenge

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