Shown from the chest up, a woman with smooth, pale, peachy-toned skin wearing a carnation-pink and white gown looks at us from this vertical portrait painting. The woman’s shoulders are angled to our left, but she turns her head and tips it to our right to look at us with brown eyes under curving, gray brows. She has an oval face with a straight nose, a hint of a double chin, and her full pink lips are closed in a slight smile. Her ash-brown hair is pulled up and back and curls across the top of her head around pink and white ribbons pleated to resemble flowers. Her square-necked, low-cut…
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Portrait of a Lady

painter Anonymous Artist

Follower of related artist Louis Michel Van Loo (French, 1707 - 1771)

18th century

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 56 x 46.5 cm (22 1/16 x 18 5/16 in.) ; framed: 74 x 62.2 cm (29 1/8 x 24 1/2 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Gift of Lewis Einstein
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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