A young woman sits and a young girl stands at an open, wide, vine-covered gate in front of a park in this horizontal painting. Both people have pale, peachy skin. The woman sits at the center of the opening with her body facing us, and she looks at or toward us with dark eyes under dark eyebrows. She tips her head slightly to her left, our right, and her brown hair has been pulled up under an ivory-white hat with a dark feather that curves over her hair toward her ears. Like the rest of the painting, her features are loosely painted but her pink lips are closed. Her pale shell-pink shawl…
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Nanny and Child

painter Eva Gonzalès (French, 1847 - 1883)

1877/1878

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 65 × 81.4 cm (25 9/16 × 32 1/16 in.) ; framed: 87.95 × 103.51 × 9.53 cm (34 5/8 × 40 3/4 × 3 3/4 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Chester Dale 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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