This painting depicts the upper body of a young person in profile, facing left. The person has pale skin, a long nose, thin pink lips, pale eyebrows, and green-brown eyes surrounded by pale purple lids. The individual has long, wavy hair that curls around their shoulders in a mix of brown, yellow, green, and dark blue shades, with shadows of purple and rusty red. They wear a dark green garment with a white and light blue collar. The paint has been applied in small, overlapping oval dots of different colors. The background is a mix of dark purple and blue, with highlights in a light orange…
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Denise Maréchal

painter Théo van Rysselberghe (Belgian, 1862 - 1926)

c. 1894

Medium
oil on wood
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 36.2 × 26.7 cm (14 1/4 × 10 1/2 in.) ; framed: 52.86 × 43.82 × 2.54 cm (20 13/16 × 17 1/4 × 1 in.)
Culture
Belgian
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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