Shown from about the knees up, a young woman with pale skin, wearing a long, flowing, peachy-pink satin dress, looks at us in this vertical portrait painting. Her shoulders are slightly angled to our left, and she gazes out with dark gray eyes set in an oval face. She has a long, narrow nose, smooth skin, and her pink lips are closed. Her light brown hair is pulled up and twisted into a loose bun high on her head, and a curl hangs down the center of her forehead. A pearl necklace rests at the base of her neck. Her dress has a low, sweeping neckline and short, fluttering sleeves. The peach of…
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Miss Grace Woodhouse

John Singer Sargent (American, 1856 - 1925)

1890

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 162.9 x 94 cm (64 1/8 x 37 in.) ; framed: 177.5 x 108.3 cm (69 7/8 x 42 5/8 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Gift of Olga Roosevelt Graves
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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