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Shown from the knees up, a woman stands facing and looking at us with her head tilted a little to our left in this vertical portrait painting. She has pale skin, a heart-shaped face with rosy cheeks, and a rose-pink bow mouth. Thin, arched, sable-brown eyebrows frame her gray eyes. A wreath of pale pink flowers and curling white ostrich feathers crowns her long gray hair, which is piled high on her head. Loose curly tendrils brush both shoulders. Her glowing, silver satin gown is trimmed with delicate sheer lace around the wide, plunging neckline and sleeves, and has a pink sash around her…

Madame du Barry

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, 1755 - 1842)

1782 · oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art · Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection)

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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