The Flower Girl
Colors in this work
Details
- Artist
- Charles Cromwell Ingham
- 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
- Palette
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- Image provider
- metropolitan-museum-of-art
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Credit
- Gift of William Church Osborn, 1902
Art Genome Taxonomy
8 tags
Subject Matter
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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.
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Flora Both · 99%
Flowers occupy much of the foreground, appear in the basket and potted plant, and are explicitly listed among the catalog subjects.
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Eye Contact Visual · 98%
The sitter looks directly outward toward the viewer with a steady frontal gaze.
Visual Qualities
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Highly Detailed Visual · 95%
The bouquet, foliage, facial features, hands, garment folds, and plant are rendered with a high degree of descriptive detail.
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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
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Oil Painting Metadata · 99%
The museum catalog classifies the work as a painting in oil on canvas.
Time Periods
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19th Century Art Metadata · 99%
The catalog dates the work to 1846.
Geographic Regions
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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.
High-resolution sources
- Original image ↗ 2,984 × 3,722 · Metropolitan Museum Of Art · Available