Shown from the shins up, a woman with pale skin, iron-gray hair, and wearing a high-collared, long-sleeved black dress, stands next to a table against a caramel-brown wall in this vertical portrait painting. Her body is angled to our right and she looks out at us from the corners of her dark eyes under arched brows. She has a straight nose and slight jowls along her jaw line. Her thin, coral-red lips are set in a straight line. A round pearl hangs from the earlobe we can see. Her hair is parted down the middle and pulled back under a black cap or cloth. Glints on that hair covering suggest…
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Eleanora O'Donnell Iselin (Mrs. Adrian Iselin)

John Singer Sargent (American, 1856 - 1925)

1888

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 153.7 × 93 cm (60 1/2 × 36 5/8 in.) ; framed: 181.93 × 122.87 × 12.38 cm (71 5/8 × 48 3/8 × 4 7/8 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Gift of Ernest Iselin
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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