A woman with pale skin, wearing a silvery-gray dress adorned with white ribbons and light pink roses, stands looking out at us with a small, pug dog by her feet in this vertical portrait painting. The woman’s body is angled slightly to our right but she looks at us with dark eyes under faint, arched brows. Her nose is rounded, her cheeks smooth and flushed, and her pale pink lips are closed. Her face is framed in a cloud of nickel-gray hair, and tendrils curl down over her shoulders. She wears a wide-brimmed straw hat with a white ribbon set on the back of her head and slightly off to one…
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The Marquesa de Pontejos

Francisco Goya (Spanish, 1746 - 1828)

c. 1786

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 210.3 x 127 cm (82 13/16 x 50 in.) ; framed: 231.8 x 146.4 cm (91 1/4 x 57 5/8 in.)
Culture
Spanish
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-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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