Shown from about the ankles up, a woman with ashen, pale skin, wearing a full, silvery-white dress with gray dots, sits on a low-backed white sofa against a pale peach background in this horizontal portrait painting. Just to our left of center, the woman sits with her body angled to our left and she looks in that direction with pale green eyes. Touches of green shade the inner corners of the eyes, and her complexion has a yellowish cast. Her pink lips are closed and her chestnut-brown hair is parted in the middle and pulled back. Her hands rest in her lap with wrists crossed. The dress…
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Madame René de Gas

Edgar Degas (French, 1834 - 1917)

1872/1873

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 72.9 x 92 cm (28 11/16 x 36 1/4 in.) ; framed: 100.3 x 119.7 cm (39 1/2 x 47 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
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