John Lewis Krimmel (Pennsylvania, 1787-1821) Young Woman in a Blue Dress

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John Lewis Krimmel (Pennsylvania, 1787-1821)

Young Woman in a Blue Dress
Signed and dated "J.L. Krimmel/5 March/1815" (on the sofa's arm).
Watercolor and gouache over pencil on paper, 6 1/4 x 4 1/2 in., matted in a giltwood frame.
Condition: Minor toning.

Literature: See Anneliese Harding, John Lewis Krimmel: Genre Artist of the Early Republic, Winterthur, Delaware, 1994, for an in-depth discussion of Krimmel's work. In that volume there is an illustration of this portrait on p. 81.
Estimate $800-1,000


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