This painting depicts the upper half of a seated young woman who is facing forward. She has fair skin, pale eyebrows, gray eyes, and thin lips in a neutral expression. The right side of her face is partially in shadow.

Miss Beatrix Lister

Joshua Reynolds (British, 1723–1792)

Date
1765
Medium
oil on canvas
Size
29½ × 24½ in (74.9 × 62.2 cm)
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1995.3.1. See the museum’s record
Credit
Gift of Margaret Mellon Hitchcock

Public domain image courtesy of the National Gallery of Art (Open Access, CC0).

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Print
16 × 20 in, filling the paper (trims 3.6 % of the picture)
Center
58 in (147 cm) above the stair line
Miss Beatrix Lister: a 16 × 20 in print hung beside a staircase, drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall
16 × 20 in portrait print (41 × 51 cm), centered 58 in above the stair line. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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Public domain image courtesy of the National Gallery of Art (Open Access, CC0). You may print, share, change and sell it without asking. Read what that means on our image license page, and how to get a good result in how to print a public-domain painting.