Shown from the lap up, a young woman with pale skin, rosy cheeks, dark eyes, and upswept chestnut-brown hair sits in an upholstered chair angled to our left and she looks in that direction in this vertical portrait painting. Light falls directly on her oval-shaped face, and she has a pointed chin and a straight nose. Her dark eyebrows are arched and though her eyes initially look dark as well, closer inspection reveals a sliver of silvery blue iris around the eye closer to us. Her full, pink mouth is slightly parted. She wears a brown, perhaps fur, shawl behind her shoulders over her long…
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Mademoiselle Malot

Edgar Degas (French, 1834 - 1917)

c. 1877

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 81.1 x 65.1 cm (31 15/16 x 25 5/8 in.) ; framed: 106 x 90.8 cm (41 3/4 x 35 3/4 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
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