Shown from the knees up, a young woman with pale skin and flushed cheeks looks at us, wearing a long, shimmering white dress partially draped with powder-blue fabric in this vertical portrait painting. The brushstrokes are loose in her clothing but blended in her face, giving the portrait a soft, almost blurred look. Her body is angled to our right but she turns to look directly at us. Her dark, chestnut-brown hair is piled loosely on her head. A dark form could be a feather or small hat set to one side. Her eyes may be two different colors; her right eye is grayish-blue and her right eye…
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Mary Crowninshield Endicott Chamberlain (Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain)

John Singer Sargent (American, 1856 - 1925)

1902

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 150.5 × 83.8 cm (59 1/4 × 33 in.) ; framed: 163.51 × 96.52 × 8.89 cm (64 3/8 × 38 × 3 1/2 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Gift of the sitter, Mary Endicott Chamberlain Carnegie
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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