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Profile of a woman facing the proper right draped in a loose-fitting white garment.
Pensive
Profile of a woman facing the proper right draped in a loose-fitting white garment.
Profile of a woman facing the proper right draped in a loose-fitting white garment.
Pensive, Reginald Barber, 1888, gouache on paper, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia.

Pensive

Artist (British, 1851 - 1928)
Date1888
Mediumgouache on paper
DimensionsCanvas: 27 5/16 × 19 3/8 inches (69.4 × 49.2 cm)
Framed: 30 × 22 × 7/8 inches (76.2 × 55.9 × 2.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Carl L. Brandt.
Object number1888.1
On View
Not on view
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