A woman with pale, peachy skin and dark brown hair, wearing a long sleeved, floor-length white satin dress, stands facing and looking out at us in a room hung with shimmering, ivory-white drapery in this vertical portrait.

Margaret Stuyvesant Rutherfurd White (Mrs. Henry White)

John Singer Sargent (American, 1856–1925)

Date
1883
Medium
oil on canvas
Size
88½ × 56½ in (225.1 × 143.8 cm)
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 2014.136.68. See the museum’s record
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of John Campbell White, 1949)

Public domain image courtesy of the National Gallery of Art (Open Access, CC0).

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Print
24 × 36 in, filling the paper (trims 4.1 % of the picture)
Center
58 in (147 cm) from the floor
Margaret Stuyvesant Rutherfurd White (Mrs. Henry White): a 24 × 36 in print hung on a plain wall, drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall
24 × 36 in portrait print (61 × 91 cm), centered 58 in from the floor. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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Public domain image courtesy of the National Gallery of Art (Open Access, CC0). You may print, share, change and sell it without asking. Read what that means on our image license page, and how to get a good result in how to print a public-domain painting.