This painting shows a young woman seated on an ornate yellow-brown chair, with her body slightly turned to the left and her head facing us. She has fair skin, dark wavy hair, a long nose, pale eyebrows, and small red lips that are slightly turned up at the ends. She is wearing a white gown with wide sleeves and a light greenish-yellow cloth draped over her shoulder and legs, perhaps a smock or apron, secured over her other shoulder by a beaded strap. She is holding a small sprig of greenery in her right hand, which rests on an arm of the chair, and her left hand is outstretched towards a…
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Young Woman with a Butterfly

American 18th Century

c. 1710

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 137.3 x 104.6 cm (54 1/16 x 41 3/16 in.) ; framed: 101.6 x 86.4 x 5.1 cm (40 x 34 x 2 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch
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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