Joseph Badger (American 1708-1765)
Jemima Flucker, c. 1760
Oil on canvas, 45-1/8 x 35-15/16 inches
Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch

This is an oil on canvas painting. It is a full-length portrait of a young girl, Elizabeth Flucker. She is dressed in a blue satin frock trimmed in white and tied loosely at the waist with a pink satin sash. The floral spray in her hair is probably a piece of jewelry, a delicate enamel and silver ornament called a tremblant (a French term that alludes to the fact that the ornament trembled, and shimmered, when the wearer moved). In her right hand she holds a sprig of cherries and on her left, a pet bird. She is shown out-of-doors in the foreground of a hilly landscape; a tree frames the composition at left.

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