Shown from the knees up, a young pale-skinned woman sits looking at us in this vertical portrait painting. Her body is angled to our right, but she turns her face to gaze out with large brown eyes under dark brows. She has an upturned nose, and a wine-red, bow-shaped mouth in a narrow face. A fringe of brown bangs falls across her forehead, and her hair is pulled back under a wide-brimmed hat topped with a cream-white and dark brown feather. The cap is worn back on her head so only the cinnamon-brown underside of the brim is visible. A long black or very dark brown fur stole drapes around…
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Portrait of Sonia

Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836 - 1904)

1890

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 109.2 x 81 cm (43 x 31 7/8 in.) ; framed: 132.7 x 104.4 cm (52 1/4 x 41 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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