Painted with wide strokes in almost geometric areas of mottled color, a woman wearing a long black dress stands at the side of a table in this stylized, vertical composition. The table stretches two-thirds of the way across the painting from the right edge, and the woman stands at the left side so her lower body is partially behind the table. Her copper-brown hair appears to be pulled up, and her face is painted as a peach-colored profile but without features. Her hands rest on the table near a white plate holding six yellow orbs, presumably fruit. To the right of the plate is a light brown…
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Woman in Black

Edouard Vuillard (French, 1868 - 1940)

c. 1891

Medium
oil on cardboard
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 26.8 x 21.9 cm (10 9/16 x 8 5/8 in.) ; framed: 45.7 x 39.7 x 4.1 cm (18 x 15 5/8 x 1 5/8 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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