The image shows a person seated in a chair, facing the viewer. The person is positioned centrally in the image, sitting upright with hands resting on their knees. The face is partially shadowed due to a hood covering most of the head. The person is dressed in a dark, long garment that covers the body entirely, with long sleeves and a hood. The background is dark and textured with a blurred silhouette of trees or large shrubs and a building behind the person.
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Seated Old Woman

Paula Modersohn-Becker (German, 1876 - 1907)

c. 1900

Medium
etching and aquatint on buff wove paper
Classification
Print
Dimensions
plate: 18.8 × 14.5 cm (7 3/8 × 5 11/16 in.) ; sheet: 30.3 × 24.2 cm (11 15/16 × 9 1/2 in.)
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CG-W
Credit line
Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen
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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