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A Lady Walking in a Garden with a Child  1785

by Thomas Gainsborough

Although their identity is unknown, the lady and child strolling through a park are probably portraits of specific members of English high society. The woman wears a large picture hat, and her hair flows in loose ringlets over her shoulder, a hairstyle very much in vogue in England between 1785 and 1790. Sweeps of black chalk with fresh white heightening suggest the lightn...
Size: 
50.8 x 22.1 cm
Medium: 
Black chalk with stumping and heightened with white pastel
Credit: 
Courtesy of The Getty