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Shown from the waist-up, a pale-skinned woman wearing a gold-colored gown and a muted dark pink shawl stands before a hazy landscape in this vertical portrait painting. Her body is angled slightly to our right, but she turns her face to our left as she looks at us from the corners of her dark gray eyes. She has an oval face with low, straight eyebrows, a long nose, prominent chin, and her thin, pale pink lips are closed. Her brown hair is pulled back and a lock curls over her right shoulder, to our left. Her low-cut bodice is lined with filmy ruffles and has a pink bow at the front center.…

Mary Bethel Boude (Mrs. Samuel Boude)

Benjamin West (American, 1738 - 1820)

1755/1756 · oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art · Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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