Dominated by tones of red and fire orange, this nearly square painting shows a seated woman leaning forward in a high-backed chair, holding a round, flat, leaf-shaped fan. She sits to our left facing our right in profile, so the back of the chair is cropped by the left edge of the composition. The coral-red wall behind the woman spans the width of the painting, and the skirt of her long ruby-red dress extends almost to the bottom right corner of the canvas. Her brown hair is pulled up, and her face is in shadow. The flat disk of the fan rests on its edge on her lap, almost at the center of…
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Madame Camus

Edgar Degas (French, 1834 - 1917)

1869/1870

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 72.7 x 92.1 cm (28 5/8 x 36 1/4 in.) ; framed: 97.1 x 117.1 cm (38 1/4 x 46 1/8 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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