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This drawing shows a portrait of a woman from the chest up. The woman is looking at us, her body slightly turned to the left. She has fair skin with pink cheeks, dark eyebrows, round, green-gray eyes, and pink lips set in as slight smile. Her hair is light, styled in voluminous curls and topped by a large gray hat set at an angle, with blue ribbons on the left and large blue feathers on the right. She wears a blue-and-white dress with a puffy white neckline, with a bunch of flowers seemingly attached to her dress on the left in shades of pink, blue, and white, surrounded by gray leaves. The background is a soft blue color with hints of gray on the left and right. The drawing is oval shaped.
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This drawing shows a portrait of a woman from the chest up. The woman is looking at us, her body slightly turned to the left. She has fair skin with pink cheeks, dark eyebrows, round, green-gray eyes, and pink lips set in as slight smile. Her hair is light, styled in voluminous curls and topped by a large gray hat set at an angle, with blue ribbons on the left and large blue feathers on the right. She wears a blue-and-white dress with a puffy white neckline, with a bunch of flowers seemingly attached to her dress on the left in shades of pink, blue, and white, surrounded by gray leaves. The background is a soft blue color with hints of gray on the left and right. The drawing is oval shaped.

National Gallery of Art · Drawing

A Fashionable Noblewoman Wearing a Plumed Hat

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard

Date
c. 1789
Medium
pastel on blue laid paper mounted on canvas (on strainer/stretcher)
Dimensions
overall (oval): 55 x 46 cm (21 5/8 x 18 1/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Accession number
1999.92.1
Credit line
New Century Fund
Time span
1776 to 1800
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • French
  • female
  • portrait
  • Rochefouchauld, Marie-Josèph-Félicité de la
Provenance

Mme. Guiraud, by 1902(?) (Lugt undescribed). Richard Thalmann, by 1926 (Lugt undescribed).[1] Private Collection, France, until 1999; (Artemis SA Luxembourg Succursale de Geneve, Switzerland); purchased 1999 by NGA. [1] This drawing does not appear to be among those seized by the Nazis from Thalmann, according to files at the National Archives.

NGA object ID 110338. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.