This painting shows a woman seated on a wooden chair outside. She is turned to the left, and we see her in profile. She holds a white cloth in her hands and looks down at it. The woman has pale skin and dark hair styled in a bun on the top of her head, and her legs are crossed. She wears a dress with a white bodice and pink skirt. There is a small hoop earring in her ear and a bracelet on her wrist. On the ground by her feet is another piece of white fabric. She sits by a large tree on the right side of the painting and is surrounded by green leaves and yellow grass. Small areas of blue sky…
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The Layette

painter Theodore Robinson (American, 1852 - 1896)

1892

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 147.64 × 92.08 cm (58 1/8 × 36 1/4 in.) ; framed: 181.61 × 121.92 × 16.19 cm (71 1/2 × 48 × 6 3/8 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase and Gift of William A. Clark, 1918)
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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