A pale-skinned woman wearing a filmy white gown sits sideways on a wooden chair in front of a slate-gray wall in this vertical portrait painting. With her body angled to our right, her shins are cut off by the bottom corner of the painting, and she gazes back over her other shoulder, to our left. Her head is tipped toward that shoulder, and she looks into the distance with charcoal-gray eyes below dark brows. Her cheeks are flushed and her small, peach lips are closed. Her black hair is braided in a single horizontal plait above wispy fringe that frames her face and curls down the back of…
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Portrait of a Young Woman in White

painter Anonymous Artist

Circle of related artist Jacques-Louis David (French, 1748 - 1825)

c. 1798

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 125.5 x 95 cm (49 7/16 x 37 3/8 in.) ; framed: 148.9 x 119.4 cm (58 5/8 x 47 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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