Woman in Blue
Thomas Gainsborough · 1780
The story
The Portrait of a Lady in Blue, or Woman in Blue, is an oil-on-canvas portrait by English artist Thomas Gainsborough, from c. 1775-1785. It is held in the Hermitage Museum, in Saint Petersburg, to which it was left in 1916 by Alexei Khitrovo, making it Gainsborough's only work in Russia.
- Artist
- Thomas Gainsborough
- Date
- 1780
- Collection
- Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Medium
- oil paint, canvas
- Size
- 76.5 × 63.5 cm
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