Description
A young woman is shown bare-shouldered, dark hair gathered beneath a dark hat trimmed with a single feather. Her expression is calm and slightly turned away, set against a warm reddish-brown background that leaves the pale skin of her shoulders as the brightest passage in the canvas.
Painted in 1904, the portrait keeps its palette tight and warm throughout, the dark hat the one deep, saturated note against the lighter flesh and background. The print holds that hat truly dark rather than lightening it, since the contrast between deep hat and pale skin is the picture’s whole structure.



