The image shows a young girl seated on a chair with her upper body visible. She is in a side-facing seated position with her hands resting on a table. She has a youthful face with a contemplative expression, a headscarf covering most of her hair, and is wearing a dark cloak with large sleeves. The table has a textured surface with a few objects placed on it. The background consists of a plain wall with a decorative element to the right.
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Violet Girl

William Morris Hunt (American, 1824 - 1879)

publisher Phillips and Sampson

1857

Medium
lithograph in black with tan stone tint on wove paper
Classification
Print
Dimensions
image: 24.77 × 19.69 cm (9 3/4 × 7 3/4 in.) ; sheet: 38.26 × 31.12 cm (15 1/16 × 12 1/4 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CG-W
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Alice F. Williams, 1958)
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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