Shown from the knees up, a pale-skinned woman sits and leans on the arm of a seat in this vertical portrait painting. The woman’s knees and shoulders are angled to our right but she turns her head slightly to our left so she looks out at us from the corners of her green, wide-set eyes. She has an oval face with a short nose, full pink lips, and a cleft in her chin. Her brown hair is set in loose finger waves and is either chin-length or pulled back. Her sleeveless, scoop-necked, ivory-white gown has spaghetti straps edged with gold. A sheen on the fabric suggests that it shimmers between…
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Ailsa Mellon Bruce

Philip Alexius de László (British, born Hungary, 1869 - 1937)

1926

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 122.2 x 96.6 cm (48 1/8 x 38 1/16 in.) ; framed: 142.2 x 116.2 cm (56 x 45 3/4 in.)
Culture
British
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CMC
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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