# Miss Mathilde Townsend

By [John Singer Sargent](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/artists/john-singer-sargent.md>), 1907.

## Details

- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: overall: 152.7 x 101.6 cm (60 1/8 x 40 in.) framed: 182.9 x 132.1 x 15.2 cm (72 x 52 x 6 in.)
- Collection: [National Gallery of Art](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/galleries/gallery-8dd66d7195da9018.md>)

[View collection record](<https://www.nga.gov/artworks/41608-miss-mathilde-townsend>)

- Categories: Painting
- Styles: [Impressionism](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/styles/impressionism.md>), [Realism](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/styles/realism.md>)

## Image

![A young woman with pale, peachy skin, wearing a long, silvery blue dress with a rose-pink train looks out at us in this vertical portrait painting.](<https://api.art.jpamorgan.com/artifacts/source-8dd66d7195da9018-070459037d15488f/full.jpg?v=5f7670f89e146f51db5eb3f6d271acd790e116ebfa2b9cd518a2092c099b7906>)

## Sources & credits

- Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington. Gift of the sitter, Mrs. Sumner Welles, 1952.3.1. CC0 Open Access.
- Gift of the sitter, Mrs. Sumner Welles
- Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington

[Canonical HTML page](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/art/miss-mathilde-townsend>)