Woman Dressed in Winter Clothing
1800
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1800
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Woman Dressed in Winter Clothing is a 1800 paint by Unknown, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a woman standing still, wrapped in heavy clothes. She wears a red hood over a blue cloak, and underneath is a long dress in pink with green and blue stripes. Her face is pale, and her hands rest at her sides. The blue cloak has dark trim, and the pink dress has small blue flower patterns. The colors are bright but simple, like winter fabrics. Look up Romanticism next to see how artists used clothing to show emotion.
A rectangular painting from 1800 depicts a central figure dressed in winter attire, featuring a long pink patterned robe beneath a navy cloak and a red hood, one of twenty-four highly finished costume subjects.
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