Leah Stirring, Red Coat (Sketch)

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

The framed painting of Leah Stirring, Red Coat (Sketch) by Gustave Blache, III. The painting (a) is rectangular in a wooden painted frame. The painting depicts a figure wearing a red baseball cap and red shirt, with dark pants and a white apron, with their back to the viewer, in front of a stove with their right arm up and out of the image. In the foreground of the image, there are two pieces of curved sausage on the yellow table. The background is mostly yellow. It is signed on the top left corner, in brown ink, reading "GUSTAVE III / "10." The frame (b) has beveled edges, and painted a dull gold color.

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