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Portrait of a Gentleman

Unidentified

The artist’s faint drawing and monochrome palette created a cheerless mood in this image. The anonymous gentleman’s shadowed eyes and slight frown evoke a melancholy mood, suggesting that this was a mourning miniature.

Date: 19th century
Type: Painting-Miniature
Medium: watercolor on ivory
Department: SAAM
Institution: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Object number: saam_1999.27.87
Credit: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Mary Elizabeth Spencer

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