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Image photographed and color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Portrait of a Brother and Sister
Image photographed and color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Image photographed and color corrected by Pat Cagney.

Portrait of a Brother and Sister

Artist Unknown
Dateca. 1790
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsOverall: 25 1/2 x 31 1/2 in. (64.8 x 80 cm)
Overall, Frame: 36 1/4 x 38 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. (92.1 x 97.8 x 6.4 cm)
ClassificationsAmerican art
Credit LineGift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch
Object number74.6.3
Terms
  • Flowers
  • Brothers
  • Sisters
  • Children
  • American naive
On View
Not on view
DescriptionOil on canvas painting of a young girl and boy; the girl holds three flowers in her left hand and her younger brother's wrist with her right hand. They are framed by a red curtain. There is a blue vase with flowers on a shelf behind them.
Label TextPortrait of a Brother and Sister, ca. 1790 American Oil on canvas Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch 74.6.3
Photographed by Scott Wolff.  Scanned from a slide.  Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Leon Kroll
1920-21
4x5 transparency scanned on Hasselblad Flextight X1 by Ed Pollard-2009.
Helen Maria Turner
1923
4x5 transparency scanned on Hasselblad Flextight X1 by Ed Pollard-2010.
Nancy Camden Witt
1981
Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Ed Pollard-2008.
Eastman Johnson
1866
Image scanned and/or photographed, then color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
F. Hüpsch
mid 19th century
Image scanned from slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña
ca. 1850
4x5 transparency scanned on Hasselblad Flextight X1 by Ed Pollard-2010.
Nancy Camden Witt
1981
Photographed by Scott Wolff.  Scanned from a slide.  Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Robert Reid
ca. 1910-11
4x5 transparency scanned on Hasselblad Flextight X1 by Ed Pollard-2018.
François Boucher
ca. 1735
New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.
Unknown
ca. 1785