Smithsonian American Art Museum
Portrait of a Young Girl
Thomas Seir Cummings, born Bath, England 1804-died Hackensack, NJ 1894 · ca. 1830
The young girl in this painting wears a black gown with puffed or “melon” sleeves. Fashionable ladies sometimes inflated these with removable down-filled pillows.
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