Shown from the waist up, a young girl wearing a slate-gray dress and straw hat stands with her hands clasped in front of her in this vertical portrait painting. The girl has light, peachy skin, and her cheeks are lightly flushed. Her body faces us but she tips her head slightly to her right, our left, and looks off into the distance with dark brown eyes. Her faint eyebrows drawn together, and her cherry-red, full lips slightly turn down at the corners. She has a button nose and a rounded chin line. She has dark blond, straight, shoulder-length hair under a wide, flat-brimmed straw hat. The…
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Child in a Straw Hat

Mary Cassatt (American, 1844 - 1926)

c. 1886

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 65.3 × 49.2 cm (25 11/16 × 19 3/8 in.) ; framed: 90.8 × 73.66 × 10.8 cm (35 3/4 × 29 × 4 1/4 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
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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