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The Allen Children

John Carlin

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The painting depicts four children. The tallest child, a girl with red hair pulled back behind her head, wears a black dress with a white collar. Her right arm rests on the shoulder of the child to her right. This child and the child to her left are boys with red hair; they wear blue dresses with white collars. In front of them stands a girl with red hair pulled back. She wears a red dress and rests her forearms on a wooden fence. The background shows a blue sky and green trees. The children are presented within a gold oval frame.

Artwork details

Date:
1847
Medium:
Watercolor on ivory
Culture:
American
Dimensions:
533 × 624 px
Museum record:
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