The image shows an elderly woman in a shoulder-length portrait. She is positioned facing the viewer with a subtle tilt of her head to the right. Her facial features include aged, wrinkled skin with a fair complexion, deeply set eyes, and defined cheekbones. Her hair is mostly covered by a cloth, but it appears greyish in color, peeking out slightly from under a plaid headscarf that is draped over her head and shoulders. The scarf is primarily tan with blue and grey stripes. Her clothing is partially visible, revealing a textured garment with a fur-like appearance. She wears a pearl earring in her left ear. The background is a simple, muted green tone.
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The image shows an elderly woman in a shoulder-length portrait. She is positioned facing the viewer with a subtle tilt of her head to the right. Her facial features include aged, wrinkled skin with a fair complexion, deeply set eyes, and defined cheekbones. Her hair is mostly covered by a cloth, but it appears greyish in color, peeking out slightly from under a plaid headscarf that is draped over her head and shoulders. The scarf is primarily tan with blue and grey stripes. Her clothing is partially visible, revealing a textured garment with a fur-like appearance. She wears a pearl earring in her left ear. The background is a simple, muted green tone.

National Gallery of Art · Drawing

An Elderly Woman in a Striped Shawl

Giuseppe Nogari

Date
c. 1743
Medium
pastel and watercolor on two joined sheets of blue paper, mounted on white paper and on original strainer
Dimensions
sight size: 51.5 × 40.5 cm (20 1/4 × 15 15/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Accession number
1984.69.1
Credit line
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Time span
1726 to 1750
Department
CG-E

Subjects and terms

  • Venetian
  • female
  • portrait
  • Bust
Provenance

August Wolff; (sale, Christie's, London, 29 November 1983, no. 80); (sale, Galerie Callieux, Paris, 3 June - 13 July 1984); acquired by the National Gallery of Art.

Inscription

verso: on mount in early pen and brown ink, not clearly legible

NGA object ID 65570. 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.