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The image features a woman seated with one leg crossed over the other, her left elbow resting on her knee and her hand supporting her head. Her face is partially obscured by her hand, but her long brown hair is visible. She wears a long dress with multiple layers and a cream-colored outer layer with a patterned border. She also wears a white blouse with loose sleeves, white shoes, and the background is a textured surface in various shades of brown.
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The image features a woman seated with one leg crossed over the other, her left elbow resting on her knee and her hand supporting her head. Her face is partially obscured by her hand, but her long brown hair is visible. She wears a long dress with multiple layers and a cream-colored outer layer with a patterned border. She also wears a white blouse with loose sleeves, white shoes, and the background is a textured surface in various shades of brown.

National Gallery of Art · Drawing

A Seated Peasant Girl in Contemplation

Eleuterio Pagliano

Date
1871
Medium
watercolor with white heightening over traces of black chalk, on wove paper laid down on old mount
Dimensions
sheet: 34.4 × 22 cm (13 9/16 × 8 11/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Accession number
2017.75.1
Credit line
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Time span
1851 to 1875
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • genre
  • Sleep
Provenance

Probably given by the artist to Carlo Luigi Invernizzi [1827-1908], to whom the drawing is dedicated. (La Portantina di Mattia Jona, Milan); purchased 2017 by NGA.

Inscription

lower right in pen and ink: Pagliano all'amico / Invernizzi 1871

NGA object ID 210160. 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.