Description
Girl in a Red Scarf is a close head-and-shoulders study of a young woman in profile, her eyes cast downward. Her brown hair is loosely waved and gathered at the back, and a red scarf or garment is wrapped around her neck and shoulders, with a touch of black fabric visible at the collar.
The painting has an unfinished, sketch-like quality: the face and hair are worked with soft, blended strokes, while the background is left as loose bands of pale cream, yellow, and lavender that never resolve into a defined setting. The red of the scarf is the most heavily worked passage, applied in thick, warm strokes that contrast with the pale ground.
Painted around 1884 and held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, this study is reproduced as a hand-painted oil on canvas or as an archival print, offered in a range of sizes.



