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A pale-skinned woman sits on a red velvet chair, which is almost entirely hidden by her voluminous, dark emerald-green and gold gown, in this vertical portrait painting. The woman sits in the center of a shadowed, cavernous space, and her body and dress nearly fill the composition. Her body is turned slightly to our right, and she looks at us from the corners of her large, dark eyes. She has a round face, slightly flushed cheeks, and her full, rose-pink lips are closed. Her tawny-brown hair is pulled back under a headband that glints silver over her right ear, to our left. A goldenrod-yellow…

Marchesa Balbi

Sir Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, 1599 - 1641)

c. 1623 · oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art · Andrew W. Mellon Collection

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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