Shown from the knees up, a woman with pale, almost white-colored skin looks out at us in this hazy, shadowy vertical painting. The setting is painted with smudged browns around a corner of electric-blue sky at the upper right. The woman rests her right elbow, to our left, up on a surface, presumably a rocky ledge, but details are difficult to make out. Her shoulders are angled slightly to our left, but her face is turned to us. She looks out with dark eyes under lowered brows. At first glance she seems to look at us, but a closer look shows that outlining around her irises and eyelids…
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Standing Woman

painter Jean-Jacques Henner (French, 1829 - 1905)

c. 1903

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 100.33 × 54.61 cm (39 1/2 × 21 1/2 in.) ; framed: 130.81 × 84.46 × 13.34 cm (51 1/2 × 33 1/4 × 5 1/4 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Edward C. and Mary Walker Collection, 1937)
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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