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The painting is executed on a small [n 2] 24.6 cm × 21.0 cm (9.7 in × 8.3 in) poplar wood panel with oil, umber, and white lead pigments. [13] It portrays the unfinished outline of a young woman whose face gently gazes downward while her loosely drawn, dishevelled hair waves in the air behind her. [7]
This image is the same size as the famous painting. The pose of Florentine was reused by Eckersberg years later in July 1850, in a drawing using pencil and sepia and titled Standing model doing her hair. The female model stands in contrapposto with her right hand holding her hair as in the oil painting from 1841.
[1] The second painting may be Young Peasant Woman with Straw Hat Sitting in the Wheat. Van Gogh uses the " picture plane " for dramatic effect. "How painters use the 'picture plane' is a telling measure," Harrison explains, "of the usually intended effects of their work and their disposition toward the spectator."
Head of a Young Woman is a 1906 oil painting by Pablo Picasso. It depicts the portrait of a young woman with long, dark hair. The painting dates from Picasso's Rose Period, during a trip that he made to the Catalan village of Gósol. It was owned by Spanish banker Jaime Botín until it was seized by the Spanish state in 2015.
Nair lady Adorning Her Hair is an 1873 painting by Raja Ravi Varma. The painting depicts a domestic scene in which a Nair woman adorning her hair with a garland of flowers in front of a mirror. The painting was notable for being the first major award-winning work that Ravi Varma had completed.
Japanese noblewomen started painting their faces with a white powder called oshiroi. One putative reason for hikimayu was that removing the natural eyebrows made it easier to put on the oshiroi. At this time, eyebrows were painted in arc shapes, [2] as in China. Women also started painting their teeth black, known as ohaguro.
The painting depicts two women, one black and one white, sitting next to each other covered in beauty patches. The painting is unusual for the time in its depiction of the sitters as equals. [2] [3] The women are presented as companions with similar dress, makeup, hair, and jewelry. The work was created circa 1650 and subverts traditional ...
The painting measures 162.3 cm x 130.2 cm and was created using oils on canvas. [7] It is an image of a woman looking at her reflection in a mirror, which reveals a darker version of herself. The woman's face has been divided into two halves, one of which is presented in a calm, lilac hue, while the other is painted roughly in bright, yellow paint.