Shown from the knees up, a woman stands facing us as she turns her head to look off to our right in this vertical portrait painting. The woman has pale, peachy skin, deeply shadowed, hooded eyes, and a straight nose. Shadows fill the hollow of her high cheekbones, and she has a thin face. Her black hair is plaited and tied up and back under brown bands. Earrings hang from each ear, and she wears two strands of white and gray pearls and three red necklaces. Her shoulders slope down, and her arms hang by her sides. The garnet-red bodice of her dress is cut low over a white undergarment. Red…
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Agostina

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French, 1796 - 1875)

1866

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 132.4 x 97.6 cm (52 1/8 x 38 7/16 in.) ; framed: 173.7 x 138.4 cm (68 3/8 x 54 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
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