A young woman with light skin stands in a garden, wearing a voluminous, full-length, silvery, shimmering gown in this vertical portrait painting. Her body faces us, as she looks into the distance to our left. She has rosy cheeks, gray-green eyes under gently arched, light brown brows, and her coral-pink, thin, closed lips curve in a slight smile. Her ash-brown hair is pulled back and adorned with tiny shell-pink and azure-blue flowers along the left side top of head, to our right. A pleated lace ruffle encircles her smooth neck. Her gown is parchment white where the light glints off the…
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Madame Bergeret

painter François Boucher (French, 1703 - 1770)

possibly 1766

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 143.5 x 105.4 cm (56 1/2 x 41 1/2 in.) ; framed: 172.4 x 134.3 cm (67 7/8 x 52 7/8 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
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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