Painted almost entirely in tones of golden, mustard, and pale yellows, a young woman is shown from the lap up having turned to face us while making lace on a wooden frame in this vertical portrait painting. Her body faces our left almost in profile, but she turns her face to look at us with large, hazel-gray eyes. Her skin has a yellow cast but her smooth cheeks are lightly flushed, and her coral-red lips are parted. Her cinnamon-brown hair is parted down the middle and pulled back under a slate-blue ribbon, and she wears a teardrop-shaped earring in the ear we can see. Her burnt-orange…
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The Lacemaker

painter Anonymous Artist

Imitator of related artist Johannes Vermeer (Dutch, 1632 - 1675)

c. 1925

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 44.5 x 40 cm (17 1/2 x 15 3/4 in.) ; framed: 67.3 x 61.9 x 9.5 cm (26 1/2 x 24 3/8 x 3 3/4 in.)
Culture
Dutch
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-B
Credit line
Andrew W. Mellon 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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