Shown from the lap up, a pale-skinned woman wearing a long gown and wide-brimmed hat sits in front of a low stone wall in this vertical portrait painting. The woman takes up the lower right quadrant of the composition. Her body faces our left, and she looks off in that direction so we see her in profile. She has large eyes, a delicate nose, round, flushed cheeks, and a pointed chin. Her blond hair is pulled back under a black covering at the back of her head. The underside of her hat brim is steel gray, and a carnation-pink feather droops over one side. The rounded, straw-yellow crown is…
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Woman Weaving a Crown of Flowers

painter Godefridus Schalcken (Dutch, 1643 - 1706)

c. 1675/1680

Medium
oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 26.7 x 20.3 cm (10 1/2 x 8 in.) ; framed: 37.6 x 31.4 x 5.1 cm (14 13/16 x 12 3/8 x 2 in.)
Culture
Dutch
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-B
Credit line
The Lee and Juliet Folger 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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