A pale-skinned young woman wearing a kimono stands facing our left in a dim interior in this vertical painting. Her black hair is upswept, and her head tilts slightly down with eyes closed. The seat of a wooden, ladderback chair rests against the back of her knees. With her left hand, closer to us, she reaches back to grasp the top rail chair behind her. She holds a folded white and brown fan in her other hand, by her side. Her voluminous robe is fawn brown and trimmed with brilliant scarlet red down the collar and around the hem. The kimono has wide, long brown sleeves that come down past…
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Young Woman in Kimono

painter Alfred H. Maurer (American, 1868 - 1932)

c. 1901

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 76.2 × 73.18 cm (30 × 28 13/16 in.) ; framed: 87 × 82.87 × 5.4 cm (34 1/4 × 32 5/8 × 2 1/8 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Edith Newlands Johnston and Janet Newlands Johnston, 1950)
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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