Title: Half-length portrait study of a woman wearing a cap and pearl earrings
Object type: Drawing
Date: ca. 1740–60
Artist: Circle of Joseph van Aken 
Artist bio: Flemish, Antwerp (?) ca. 1699–1749 London (active Britain)
Artist nationality: Flemish
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Black and white chalk, brown ink and graphite on blue laid paper, squared in graphite
Dimensions: sheet: 12 3/4 x 10 1/4 in. (32.4 x 26.1 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Purchase, Jeffrey L. Berenson Gift, 2004
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Portraits, term: Women