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One woman sits and bends forward, bracing her elbows on her wide-spread knees as a second woman combs her long hair in this vertical black chalk drawing on pale blue paper. Both have straight, strong noses, wide-set eyes, full, rounded lips, and pointed chins in thin faces. The seated woman’s knees are turned to our left, but she turns her head to look over our left shoulder with her lips parted. Her right arm extends almost straight so her hand lies limp beyond her right knee, and she holds an oval hand mirror tucked against her voluminous skirts in her other hand. The bodice and sleeves of…

Desdemona's Death-Song

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (British, 1828 - 1882)

1878/1880 · black chalk over traces of red chalk on two joined sheets of blue-green paper

National Gallery of Art · New Century Fund and Paul Mellon Fund

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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