Portrait #383

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Cushman, Charlotte (as Joan of Arc)
  • Artist:Sully, Thomas
  • Date Created:ca. 1840
  • Owner/Location:Cheekwood Museum of Art Nashville, TN
  • Frame Dimensions:NA
  • Image Dimensions:3 1/4 x 2 5/8
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  • Materials/Media:watercolor on ivory
  • Condition:Excellent
  • Description:Rectangular bust-length nearly frontal of a young woman, the famous actress Charlotte Cushman, who has straight dark brown hair parted in the middle. It falls to her jaw line. She is wearing a simple white dress. Her gaze is up and to her right and a soft halo surrounds her in the background.
  • History:Exhibited at Gibbes 2000...A Brooklyn Museum exhibit label is attached to the back and dated April 22, 1921.