Portrait of a Woman
Ellen Day Hale
American, 1855 – n 1940

Details
Title
Portrait of a Woman
Artist/Maker
Ellen Day Hale (American, 1855 – n 1940)
Date
1883
Medium
Pencil, charcoal, and white chalk on paper
Dimensions
24 1/8 x 18 3/8 inches
Credit
Gift of Paul G. Stein
Accession #
2016.505
On View
Currently not on view
Bostonian portraitist Ellen Day Hale was best known for her striking studies of female subjects. The sitter here is believed to be Gabrielle de Veaux Clements, a fellow artist and lifelong companion of Hale’s. The sensitively rendered drawing is finely detailed, especially in the bonnet’s decorative elements. Such an exquisite portrait likely required Hale’s friend to sit patiently for hours on end, indicating the good nature of their friendship and mutual respect for each other as artists.
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