The Flower Girl

The Flower Girl

Charles Cromwell Ingham

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Details

Date
1846
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
36 x 28 3/8 in. (91.4 x 72.1 cm)
Origin
American
Department
The American Wing
Holding institution
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
License
CC0-1.0
Credit
Gift of William Church Osborn, 1902

Art Genome Taxonomy

8 tags

Subject Matter

  • Individual Portrait Both · 99%

    The image shows a single centrally positioned sitter in a formal half-length composition, and the museum catalog lists “Portraits” and “Girls” among the subjects.

  • Flora Both · 99%

    Flowers occupy much of the foreground, appear in the basket and potted plant, and are explicitly listed among the catalog subjects.

  • Eye Contact Visual · 98%

    The sitter looks directly outward toward the viewer with a steady frontal gaze.

Visual Qualities

  • Highly Detailed Visual · 95%

    The bouquet, foliage, facial features, hands, garment folds, and plant are rendered with a high degree of descriptive detail.

  • Dark Colors Visual · 92%

    A nearly black hood, dark left background, and muted dusk landscape create a substantial dark tonal field around the brighter sitter and flowers.

Medium and Techniques

  • Oil Painting Metadata · 99%

    The museum catalog classifies the work as a painting in oil on canvas.

Time Periods

Geographic Regions

  • American Art Metadata · 97%

    The catalog identifies the place of origin as American and the artist as American.

Source & rights

Charles Cromwell Ingham. The Flower Girl. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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