A Seated Peasant Girl in Contemplation

1871

Eleuterio Pagliano

Associated Names
Eleuterio Pagliano

Artist, Italian, 1826 - 1903

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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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor with white heightening over traces of black chalk, on wove paper laid down on old mount

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 34.4 × 22 cm (13 9/16 × 8 11/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2017.75.1

Artwork history & notes

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.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

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

Wikidata ID

Q64558307

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