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Shown from the knees up, a pale-skinned woman in a voluminous rust-orange dress stands facing us in this vertical portrait painting. She looks toward us but slightly down with dark brown eyes under curved brows. She has a wide face, rounded cheeks, a broad nose, and closed, coral-pink lips over a deeply dimpled chin. Her chestnut-brown hair is pulled up and back. The orange dress has a band of charcoal gray across the shoulders and at the flaring cuffs. Wide, vertical pleats fall from under the band across her chest. White trim, perhaps lace or fur, is suggested by loosely painted cream…
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Girl in Red

Edgar Degas (French, 1834 - 1917)

c. 1866

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 98.9 × 80.8 cm (38 15/16 × 31 13/16 in.) ; framed: 128.91 × 102.87 cm (50 3/4 × 40 1/2 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Chester Dale Collection
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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