Portrait of a Young Woman Seated

ca. 1760

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Black chalk with touches of red wash
Dimensions: Sheet (corners trimmed): 11 3/4 x 7 in. (29.8 x 17.8 cm)
Collection no.: 2012.242
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Thomas Gainsborough. Portrait of a Young Woman Seated. Thomas Gainsborough; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace, Christine Burgin and Donald Young Foundation Gifts, 2012. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Portrait of a Young Woman Seated — Thomas Gainsborough. ca. 1760.

Medium: Black chalk with touches of red wash. Dimensions: Sheet (corners trimmed): 11 3/4 x 7 in. (29.8 x 17.8 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace, Christine Burgin and Donald Young Foundation Gifts, 2012.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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