Lady with Red Shawl

Date1849

Artist George Henry Hall (1825-1913)

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsUnframed: 27 x 22 1/8in. (68.6 x 56.2cm) and Framed: 32 1/4 x 27 3/8in.

Credit LineGift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

Object number1937.100.1

DescriptionA half-length portrait of a hazel-eyed, middle-aged woman in a feigned oval. She is shown against a shaded brown background and wears a black dress with a V neckline over white lace, with an oval pin at her throat. She wears a red shawl around her shoulders. Her brown hair is parted in the center, looped forward over her ears, and pulled back in a bun. She wears a small lacy cap and red flowers on her head.
The 3-inch molded gold leaf frame with gold leaf oval insert is original.
InscribedPainted above the subject's proper right shoulder is the inscription "G. H. Hall/Boston, 1849."
ProvenanceFound by Katrina Kipper, Accord, Mass.; purchased from Kipper by Mrs. Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and given by the latter to CWF in 1939.