# Portrait of a Lady

By [Mary Cassatt](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/artists/mary-cassatt.md>), c. 1887.

## Details

- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: overall: 72.9 x 60.3 cm (28 11/16 x 23 3/4 in.) framed: 100.3 x 84.1 cm (39 1/2 x 33 1/8 in.)
- Collection: [National Gallery of Art](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/galleries/gallery-8dd66d7195da9018.md>)

[View collection record](<https://www.nga.gov/artworks/46482-portrait-lady>)

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

## Image

![Shown from the lap up, an older woman with pale, slightly sagging skin and frosty gray hair sits facing us in this loosely painted vertical portrait.](<https://api.art.jpamorgan.com/artifacts/source-8dd66d7195da9018-9b8971f19f1ae8d9/full.jpg?v=280232859ecfe899e34de25560cd41179f21aa9d453a9ec5d23b7b0cd95b044c>)

## Sources & credits

- Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington. Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.7. CC0 Open Access.
- Chester Dale Collection
- Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington

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