A child and man stand facing away from us in this vertical painting. The scene is painted with visible dabs, stipples, and strokes of paint, and many details, especially in the distance, are indistinct. A young girl is to the left, a blue band holding back her long brown hair. Despite the title of this painting, Child Wearing a Red Scarf, she wears a bulky, pumpkin-orange scarf around her neck over an ankle-length dress dotted with red. Streaks of brown suggest shoes under the lower hem. The person to our right wears dark trousers, a brown, long-sleeved shirt, and olive-green shoes outlined…
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Child Wearing a Red Scarf

Edouard Vuillard (French, 1868 - 1940)

c. 1891

Medium
oil on cardboard
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 29.2 × 17.5 cm (11 1/2 × 6 7/8 in.) ; overall (support and wooden collar): 30.2 × 18.4 cm (11 7/8 × 7 1/4 in.) ; framed: 48.9 × 37.15 × 10.8 cm (19 1/4 × 14 5/8 × 4 1/4 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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