Shown from the waist up, a Shawano woman with medium-brown skin sits angled to the right and looking off in that direction in this vertical portrait painting. She has broad, flushed cheeks, light brown eyes, a cleft chin, and her lips are closed. Her black hair is parted down the middle and tied at the base of her head. A ponytail falls over one shoulder, and her part is painted red. She wears an earring made up of a cluster of long, conical silver tubes in the ear we can see. At least nine strands of delicate, blue-toned beads encircle her neck, some falling to the hollow of her throat and…
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The Female Eagle - Shawano

George Catlin (American, 1796 - 1872)

1830

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 72.2 x 59 cm (28 7/16 x 23 1/4 in.) ; framed: 81.3 x 67.9 cm (32 x 26 3/4 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Paul Mellon Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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