Shown from the waist up, a woman with light, peachy-yellow skin sits with her body facing us as she looks over her shoulder to our right in this loosely painted, vertical portrait. Her face is in profile and her carnation-pink and tangerine-orange hair is pulled into a bun at the base of her head. Fluffy bangs are parted over her forehead and obscure her eyes. Her snub nose is reddened, and her pink lips are pursed. She wears a long sleeved, tight fitting, black blouse with bright orange trim along one side of the shallow, V-shaped neckline. Her hands rest in her lap, one in front of the…
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Carmen Gaudin

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864 - 1901)

1885

Medium
oil on wood
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 23.8 x 14.9 cm (9 3/8 x 5 7/8 in.) ; framed: 43.7 x 37.2 x 10.2 cm (17 3/16 x 14 5/8 x 4 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
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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