Shown from the waist up, the profile of a pale-skinned woman wearing an ice-blue dress is loosely painted with visible brushstrokes in this vertical portrait. The woman’s body faces our right, and she looks slightly down with her pale pink lips parted. A floppy straw hat is tied over her copper-blond hair with a plum-purple ribbon and tied in a bow beneath her chin. The bow appears to be nearly as wide as her shoulders, and the ribbons hang down almost to her belly button. Her dress has a high, ruffled neckline along the back of the neck and long sleeves. A few flecks of lapis blue suggest…
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Young Woman with a Straw Hat

Berthe Morisot (French, 1841 - 1895)

1884

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 55.5 × 46.7 cm (21 7/8 × 18 3/8 in.) ; framed: 71.76 × 62.23 × 8.89 cm (28 1/4 × 24 1/2 × 3 1/2 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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