A woman with pale, peachy skin and dark brown hair, wearing a long sleeved, floor-length white satin dress, stands facing and looking out at us in a room hung with shimmering, ivory-white drapery in this vertical portrait. The woman’s body is angled slightly to our left and her hair is piled on top of her head. She has dark eyes, a straight nose, and her rose-red lips are closed. She wears pearl earrings, a string of pearls at her throat, and a brooch with two large pearls at her chest. The deep V-neck of her dress is edged with layers of sheer fabric that drapes over her shoulders. Some…
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Margaret Stuyvesant Rutherfurd White (Mrs. Henry White)

painter John Singer Sargent (American, 1856 - 1925)

1883

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 225.1 × 143.8 cm (88 5/8 × 56 5/8 in.) ; framed: 249.24 × 167.96 × 12.07 cm (98 1/8 × 66 1/8 × 4 3/4 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Gift of John Campbell White, 1949)
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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