Object Details
- Artist
- Rosalba Carriera, Italian, 1673–1757
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Bust length figure of a black woman, her right breast exposed and holding a scorpion in her right hand. She wears a turban decorated with feathers and jewels, pearl pendant earrings and a close-fitting pearl necklace. Her body is tilted forward and her gaze is directed to the left.
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Estate of James Hazen Hyde
- before 1720
- Accession Number
- 1960-1-7-c
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- portraits
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pastel on paper mounted on canvas
- Dimensions
- 43.8 x 34.2 cm (17 1/4 x 13 7/16 in.)
- Frame H x W x D: 58.4 × 49.5 × 5.1 cm (23 in. × 19 1/2 in. × 2 in.)
- made in
- Italy
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1960-1-7-c
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4c4d59fca-9150-4927-8f35-5cb674eee047
