seated portrait
Chair-posed painting
A seated portrait depicts the subject sitting rather than standing or shown only from the shoulders up.
This format dominated formal portraiture for centuries, allowing artists to capture posture, hand placement, and the subject's relationship to furniture or setting.
The pose typically conveys authority or ease: a seated portrait of the chairman, She commissioned a seated portrait for the family home.
- sittingBeing in seated posture
- poseDeliberate bodily arrangement
- three-quarter viewDiagonal facial angle
- chairSingle-person sitting furniture
- sitting roomRoom for relaxing together
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