Shown from the chest up, a young woman with smooth, pale skin sleeps with her head tipped away from us in this vertical painting. Her face leans to our left so we see her delicate features in profile. She has faint brows, and her pink lips are parted. The tip of her nose and cheeks are also lightly flushed. Her brown curls are topped with a black fur cap, which is draped with a triangular, muted red cloth. The cloth comes to a point with a gold tassel, which hangs alongside her neck. A flaring, pleated, white collar encircles her neck, seeming unconnected to her other garments. Her…
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A Sleeping Girl

painter Pietro Rotari (Venetian, 1707 - 1762)

1760/1762

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 45.4 x 35.3 cm (17 7/8 x 13 7/8 in.)
Culture
Venetian
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-B
Credit line
Samuel H. Kress Collection
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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