This painting shows a woman from the chest up, with her head slightly turned to the right. She has fair skin, red lips, and brown hair in an updo. She wears a gray-blue dress with black buttons and holds a white object in her right hand, perhaps a handkerchief. The background is red, with a white panel on the left behind her head with a green arch featuring floral pattern, and a decorative object on the right that looks like a wooden stump on a box or shelf.
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Madame Alexandre Kohler

painter Paul Gauguin (French, 1848 - 1903)

1887/1888

Medium
oil on linen
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 46.3 x 38 cm (18 1/4 x 14 15/16 in.) ; framed: 61.6 x 52.7 cm (24 1/4 x 20 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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