This drawing shows a portrait of a woman from the chest up. The woman is looking at us, her body slightly turned to the left. She has fair skin with pink cheeks, dark eyebrows, round, green-gray eyes, and pink lips set in as slight smile. Her hair is light, styled in voluminous curls and topped by a large gray hat set at an angle, with blue ribbons on the left and large blue feathers on the right. She wears a blue-and-white dress with a puffy white neckline, with a bunch of flowers seemingly attached to her dress on the left in shades of pink, blue, and white, surrounded by gray leaves. The…
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A Fashionable Noblewoman Wearing a Plumed Hat

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (French, 1749 - 1803)

c. 1789

Medium
pastel on blue laid paper mounted on canvas (on strainer/stretcher)
Classification
Drawing
Dimensions
overall (oval): 55 x 46 cm (21 5/8 x 18 1/8 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CG-E
Credit line
New Century Fund
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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