“Portrait of Miss Cornelia Lyman Warren Trustee of Wellesley,” an oil on canvas painting by Alexandre Cabanel, was completed in 1871. Falling under the Academicism art movement, this portrait is presently housed in the Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, US. The dimensions of the artwork are 87.96 by 182.58 cm. It is a genre of portrait painting.
The artwork features a young woman, Miss Cornelia Lyman Warren, standing in an elegant and poised manner. She is depicted wearing a dark, flowing dress adorned with a blue bow at the collar, which complements her long, loose hair. She holds a hat and what appears to be a small umbrella or parasol in her left hand. The background shows a terrace with a balustrade, beyond which stretches a serene, natural landscape with trees and a partly cloudy sky, lending an air of tranquility to the composition. Cabanel’s meticulous attention to detail and deft execution are evident in the nuanced rendering of textures and the lifelike representation of Miss Warren’s countenance, embodying the ideals of Academicism.
