Portrait of a lady in white
Portrait of a lady in white
Russia, St. Petersburg
1856
Paper (on cardboard); watercolor, gouache
64.9 x 54.3 cm
Three-quarter length portrait of a young woman in a long white dress with openwork bonnet over her head is depicted against a landscape on an oval sheet. Shown in three-quarters profile facing left, she has placed one hand on a stone ledge, directing her gaze toward it, while fidgeting with the ribbon of a waist bow with her other hand.
The author's signature and date are inscribed in the lower-right section: Zichy 1856
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