Shown from the hips up, a woman with pale skin, wearing a sapphire-blue gown, looks over her left shoulder at us in this vertical portrait painting. Her body faces our left in profile, and she looks at us from the corners of her large, hooded, gray eyes. She has an oval face with a straight nose, rosy cheeks, and her full, pink lips are closed. Wisps of brown hair fall across her forehead, and her face and neck are framed by a cloud of soft curls tied with a royal-blue bow over the ear on the side we can see. Around her neck is a cream-white pearl choker necklace. Her low-cut bodice is lined…
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Countess Ebba Sparre

painter Sébastien Bourdon (French, 1616 - 1671)

1652/1653

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 106.1 x 90.2 cm (41 3/4 x 35 1/2 in.) ; framed: 139.7 x 123.2 x 12.7 cm (55 x 48 1/2 x 5 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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