Shown from the waist up, a pale-skinned woman wearing a ruby-red dress and voluminous, pleated white headdress sits against a dark background in this vertical portrait painting. The woman’s body is angled to our right, but she looks at us from the corners of her dark gray eyes. She has thin eyebrows, lightly flushed cheeks, faintly smiling lips, and a wide, cleft chin over a slight double chin. A flesh-colored mole is just above the left corner of her mouth. Gray hair is swept up under the upside-down U-shaped headdress, which is pleated with translucent white fabric along the front and up…
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Lady Wearing a Large White Cap

American 18th Century

c. 1780

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 76.5 x 65 cm (30 1/8 x 25 9/16 in.) ; framed: 81.6 x 93.4 x 6.4 cm (32 1/8 x 36 3/4 x 2 1/2 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
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