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The image depicts the upper half of a woman seated in a side profile position, facing to the left. She has fair skin, closed lips, light-colored eyes, and light brown hair styled up. She wears a high-collared dress with lace detailing and a dark shawl draped over her shoulders. She has a brooch with a dangling accessory around her neck. The background is dark with subtle hints of color.
National Gallery of Art · Painting
Agnes Gordon Higginson Fuller (Mrs. George Fuller)
George Fuller
- Date
- c. 1877
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- overall: 69 x 56 cm (27 3/16 x 22 1/16 in.) framed: 81.3 x 66.7 x 8.3 cm (32 x 26 1/4 x 3 1/4 in.)
- Classification
- Painting
- Accession number
- 1948.1.1
- Credit line
- Given in memory of the sitter's granddaughter, Agnes Gordon Hilton
- Time span
- 1876 to 1900
- Department
- CAB
Subjects and terms
- painted surface
- American
- female
- portrait
- American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I [A-L]
- Fuller, Agnes Gordon Higginson
Provenance
The artist, Deerfield, Massachusetts; his estate until 1911; the sitter [1838-1924], Deerfield, Massachusetts.[1] her daughter, Agnes Gordon Fuller Tack [Mrs. Augustus Vincent Tack], Deerfield, Massachusetts; gift 1948 to NGA. [2] Letter of 24 January 1992 from Jeffrey Goodhue Legler, great-great-grandson of the artist (in NGA curatorial files), provides provenance information and states that the sitter's will directed that the portrait be given to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Instead, it seems to have passed to her daughter.
NGA object ID 34193. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.