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Description: | Full figure depiction of a female servant who is walking through the shadows of an arched entranceway. She is dressed in an exotic style, and the scenery behind her is Egyptian-looking, but her skin is pale and her features Western.
She carries a tray on which is set two small cups and two small inverted glasses. Her dark hair is partly covered with a turban headdress which hangs darkly behind her head, framing her pale neck. She is dressed in richly exotic garments, patterned and worn in a layered and loose style tied at the waist with a wide sash, and ornamented with a necklace. Over these robes she wears a short navy jacket with gold leaf-pattern embroidery and gold trim. She stands with one foot placed on a step that leads out from the darkness of the entranceway into a sunlit foreground with a coloured mosaic tiled floor; The open door to the left is decorated with panels carved into geometric relief designs. The light from the walled garden beyond frames the subject. Palm trees and a minaret are visible beyond the garden wall.
Technique: oil on panel
medium: Oil paint
The Coffee Bearer by John F. Lewis, 1857, (1977.2). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.7806 | Go to resource |
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