Shown from the lap up a pale-skinned young girl sits in a grassy landscape in this vertical painting. The girl and surroundings are painted with visible strokes and dashes of mostly vivid greens and blues, which give the scene a soft look. The girl sits angled to our right and she looks off in that direction from heavy-lidded, aqua-colored eyes. She has an oval face, full cheeks, and a round chin. The bridge of her nose is touched with pink, and the shadows under her chin are tinged with green. Her brown hair is mostly covered by a wide-brimmed straw hat tied with a thin brick-red ribbon…
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Peasant Girl with a Straw Hat

Camille Pissarro (French, born St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, 1830 - 1903)

1881

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 73.34 × 59.53 cm (28 7/8 × 23 7/16 in.) ; framed: 90.17 x 75.88 x 6.99 cm (35 1/2 x 29 7/8 x 2 3/4 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection
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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