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The Milk Woman

Object Details

Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
Portrait of a young woman, facing front, presenting a gilded milk can. She wears a frilled bonnet and a plaid dress with a low neckline.
Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Artist
Louis-Marin Bonnet, French, 1736 - 1793
Date
1774
Credit Line
Museum purchase through gift of George A. Hearn
Medium
Engraving and etching in the crayon-manner in blue, black and red ink over gold leaf, on off-white laid paper.
Dimensions
Image: 28.2 x 23.4 cm (11 1/8 x 9 3/16 in.)
Type
ornament
Object Name
Print
Type
Print
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