Shown from about the hips up against a dark gray background, a rosy-cheeked, light-skinned woman stands before a wooden table as she arranges flowers in this vertical portrait. Her body is angled to our right, and she turns to look at us with clear blue eyes under curving brows. She has a straight nose, and her small bow lips are closed. Her gray hair is loosely bound, and curls fall over her shoulders. She wears a white muslin dress with puffed sleeves and blousy ruffles around the neckline. Her dress is gathered at her waist with a sheer, gold-striped sash. The wide brim of her straw hat…
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Marie-Antoinette

painter Anonymous Artist

artist after Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, 1755 - 1842)

after 1783

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 92.7 × 73.1 cm (36 1/2 × 28 3/4 in.) ; framed: 141.61 × 99.06 × 17.78 cm (55 3/4 × 39 × 7 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Timken Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

View at the National Gallery of Art