Shown from the knees up, a pale-skinned woman wearing a floppy, canary-yellow hat and a long white dress stands in a field of spring green in this vertical painting. Brushstrokes and loose dabs of paint are visible throughout. The woman’s body is angled to our left, and she looks off in that direction with bright green eyes. Her nose, eyebrows, and narrow chin are outlined with medium brown, and her pink lips are closed. Her black hair is pulled back under the hat, the wide brim of which droops down either side of her face. A sky-blue ribbon or decoration is on the front of the crown. Her…
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Girl in White

painter Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853 - 1890)

1890

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 66.7 x 45.8 cm (26 1/4 x 18 1/16 in.) ; framed: 96.2 x 73.7 cm (37 7/8 x 29 in.)
Culture
Dutch
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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