Shown from the chest up, a pale-skinned woman wears a black tricorn hat and a black cloak that covers her shoulders, chest, and much of her face in this vertical portrait painting. Her body is angled to our left, and she looks at us from the corners of her dark, almond-shaped eyes. The jet-black hat is set back slightly on her head but covers most of her forehead. A loop goes around a black button on the side to our right, and the corner of a parchment-white decoration, presumably a bow, peeks up from the far side of the hat. Her pale face is like a moon, partially visible within the opening…
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Young Lady in a Tricorn Hat

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Venetian, 1696 - 1770)

c. 1755/1760

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 62.2 x 49.3 cm (24 1/2 x 19 7/16 in.) ; framed: 80 x 68 x 7.6 cm (31 1/2 x 26 3/4 x 3 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
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