A young girl with long blond hair and smooth, pale skin is shown from the chest up facing our left in profile in this vertical portrait painting. She has large brown eyes under faint brows, a petite nose, and her coral-pink lips are closed. Her hair, which falls below her shoulders, is held in place with a scarlet-red headband, and short bangs fringe her forehead. A black hat with an upturned brim and gently curving crown sits on the back of her head with ribbons streaming down her back, and a loosely painted gold earring dangles from her ear. Her black cape has a pewter-gray collar and hem…
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Alsatian Girl

Jean-Jacques Henner (French, 1829 - 1905)

1873

Medium
oil on wood
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 27.2 x 18.7 cm (10 11/16 x 7 3/8 in.) ; framed: 43.2 x 35.6 cm (17 x 14 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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