Clarissa Storrs
ca. 1795
Medium
Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions
2 1/4 x1 3/4 in. (5.7 x 4.3 cm)
Classification
Painting, miniature
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Alexander G. Cummins, 1939
Accession Number
39.149
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the intimate world of early American portraiture with *Clarissa Storrs*, a exquisite miniature painted by William Verstille around 1795. This watercolor on ivory, measuring just 2¼ × 1¾ inches (5.7 × 4.3 cm), captures the poised elegance of its sitter, likely a woman of refinement from the post-Revolutionary era. Housed in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's American Wing, it entered the collection as a gift from Mrs Alexander G. Cummins in 1939. Verstille, one of America's foremost miniaturists active in New York during the Federal period, specialized in these diminutive gems, which w...