The New Bonnet

A young woman in a dark bodice and pale green skirt lifts a new blue bonnet by its ribbons while an elderly man seated by the stove reads a letter. A girl with a pail and a dog cross the wooden floor, and an older woman watches from the right beside a table of squash, onions and greens.

Look closer: A small dog sits near the girl at the doorway, and a bright light falls through the open door onto the floor.

Artist

Francis William Edmonds

Date

1858

Medium

Oil on canvas

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

3803 × 3178 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Erving Wolf Foundation Gift and Gift of Hanson K. Corning, by exchange, 1975