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The head and shoulders of a young woman with gold-tinted, pale skin looks out over our right shoulder from against a tomato-red background in this vertical painting. The portrait is created with mostly visible, sinuous brushstrokes that make some details indistinct. With her body facing us, the woman nearly fills this composition. She looks in our direction with large, dark eyes under almost flat brows. She has an oval face, a long nose, and her full, slightly downturned coral-red lips are closed. Her chestnut-brown hair falls loosely down her back. Some locks pour over her left shoulder, to…

Alice Butt

James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834 - 1903)

c. 1895 · oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art · Gift of Curt H. Reisinger

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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