This painting shows a woman in a full-body portrait. She is standing with her body turned slightly to the right, looking out at us. The woman has pale skin, rosy cheeks, dark eyebrows, deep-set eyes, and red lips in a slight smile. Her dark hair is styled in an intricate updo. She wears a golden-yellow gown with a low neck, puffed, sheer sleeves, and a skirt that drapes down her legs and trails behind her. She holds a red flower in her right hand, and a dark wrap or shawl is draped over her left arm, her left hand on her hip. A gold ring is visible on her left hand, and she has round golden…
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Nora McMullen Mellon (Mrs. Andrew W. Mellon)

painter James Jebusa Shannon (British, 1862 - 1923)

1910

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 210.8 x 125.1 cm (83 x 49 1/4 in.) ; framed: 221.6 x 134.6 x 6.4 cm (87 1/4 x 53 x 2 1/2 in.)
Culture
British
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Paul Mellon Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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