23 March 2018

Thomas Sully. The Student, 1839 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).



Oil on canvas: 59.7 x 49.5 cm. The artist’s daughter Rosalie Kemble Sully. That strange hat is thought to be a lampshade from Sully’s studio. Other version (1848) at the Mint Museum, Charlotte. Sully made several replicas.

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