Photography by Dwight Primiano
Portrait of a Young Woman
The identity of this woman, carefully drawn with warm pastels, is unknown to us today. French-born artist Henrietta Johnston drew her Southern sitter after the Johnston family settled in present-day Charleston, South Carolina, in 1708. Although the details of Portrait of a Young Woman are fuzzy, by 1710 Johnston was already regarded as a professional portraitist whose work was collected during her lifetime.
ArtistHenrietta Johnston(1674-1729)
ca. 1674 - aft. 1729
Dateca. 1720
MediumPastel on paper
Dimensions24 1/2 x 22 1/4 x 1 in. (62.2 x 56.5 x 2.5 cm)
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2007.102
ClassificationDrawing
ProvenanceHomer Eaton Keyes [1875-1938], New York, NY; Katharine Keyes (his daughter), New York, NY; Private Collection, New York, NY; John Driscoll, New York, NY; to (Babcock Galleries, New York, NY); purchased by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, 2007
On ViewYes
This artwork's face covers about 75× the area of a tennis ball.Drawn to the same scale.
