Shown from the lap up, a young woman with smooth, olive-toned skin tinged with pink sits facing our left on a waterfront verandah in this vertical painting. A peanut-brown stone wall behind her angles into the picture from the right edge of the painting, and a stone balustrade spans the width of the composition beyond her. A sliver of a coral-pink drapery hangs just behind her shoulders, to our right. She tips her head down and to our right over slightly slumped shoulders. She looks at or toward us with large brown eyes under dark, arching brows. She has a thin, straight nose, and her full,…
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Woman of the "Orient"

painter Henri Lehmann (French, born Germany, 1814 - 1882)

1837

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 75 × 61 cm (29 1/2 × 24 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Chester Dale Fund
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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