Art George Washington

Gilbert Stuart’s portrait of George Washington is called the “Lansdowne” painted in the 1800, it is located in the American Wing; room Anthony W. and Lulu C. Wang Galleries of Eighteen–century American Art. It is an oil canvas painting displayed upright against the wall near the corridor, dimension are 48 x 37 in. This painting was lent to the museum by Mr. and Mrs. Michael Stienhardt in 2008. Alongside the George Washington portrait there are other portraits by Gilbert Stuart’s, such as “Matilda Stoughton de Jaudenes” and “Jaudenes y Nebot.” From a curator’s point of view, I felt like the artwork around the “George Washington” portrait was ideal because they all represented people in politics. The painting “Matilda Stoughton de Jaudenes” was of a sixteen year old girl whose father had served in Spain's consul in Boston for thirty years. The "Jaudenes y Nebot" was a painting of Matilda Stoughton de Jaudenes' husband, who had his sight as a permanent envoy to the United States.
George Washington's portrait has many unique qualities and features that make it asymmetrical. The reason is because it is a portrait of a person it cannot have parts that correspondent to one another; they are not equal. When I mean not equal, I mean if you fold the painting in half the painting is not alike both sides are different. The portrait has symbolic meaning behind it because he was our first president and in the portrait he is surrounded with objects of his public life during the service of his country. Now analyzing the painting more thoroughly, one can notice his clothing attire was suitable for his position in power, since he was the president of the United States of America.i The suit symbolizes a switch to a public figure from general to president. The sheathed sword is ceremonial; it distinguished him as a "fine gentlemen" and is symbolic in a sense because it distinguished him as being head of state.i
The subject matter of this portrait is George Washington, who is