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A woman with pale skin and reddish, auburn hair stands facing and looking at us on a grassy lawn, wearing a long black dress in this vertical portrait painting. She stands with her body angled slightly to our right but turns to look at us with heavy-lidded, hazel eyes under pointed brows. She has a narrow face, a straight nose, and her full, pink lips are closed. Her cheeks are lightly flushed and she has a cleft in her chin. Her copper-colored, curly hair is pulled back, and bangs sweep across her forehead. Her black dress has a fitted bodice and the long, narrow skirt ends in layers of…

Marie Buloz Pailleron (Madame Édouard Pailleron)

John Singer Sargent (American, 1856 - 1925)

1879 · oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art · Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase and gifts of Katherine McCook Knox, John A. Nevius and Mr. and Mrs. Lansdell K. Christie, 1964)

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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