Shown from about the knees up, a young woman sits in a chair angled to our right but she turns her face to look at us in this loosely painted, vertical portrait. Her chair has a rounded back and arms made from what looks like bent, woody vines, and the background is a solid field of pale aqua. Her dark hair is parted in the middle and tied at the nape of her neck with a red ribbon. Dark eyebrows curve over brown eyes, and she has a rounded nose, and her petal-pink lips are slightly parted. Her pale peach skin is tinged with green on her face and hands. Her right arm, on our left, rests along…
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La Mousmé

painter Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853 - 1890)

1888

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 73.3 x 60.3 cm (28 7/8 x 23 3/4 in.) ; framed: 99 x 86.3 x 10.1 cm (39 x 34 x 4 in.)
Culture
Dutch
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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