Object Details
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- Ambrose Duval painted this portrait a few years after he arrived in New Orleans. It is not clear how he knew the young lady Theresa Diana Levesque, but she appears to have been a woman of fashion, and would have been nearly the same age as the artist.
- Data Source
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Artist
- Ambrose Duval, born ca. 1778-died 1860
- Sitter
- Theresa Diana Levesque
- Date
- 1810
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase
- Medium
- watercolor on ivory
- Dimensions
- sight 2 1/2 x 2 in. (6.4 x 5.1 cm)
- Type
- Painting-Miniature
