Shown from the waist up, a young woman with pale skin, wearing a wide-brimmed, floppy hat, looks off to our left in this vertical portrait painting. Warm light falls across the woman from our right, throwing the left side of her face into shadow. The straw hat has a rounded crown with a black band around the base. The front and the side of the wide brim to our left are turned up, and it flattens out behind her head and long neck. The woman’s shoulders are angled slightly to our left and she looks in that direction with hazel brown eyes. A faint blush brightens her smooth cheeks, and she has a short nose, a pointed chin, and her full, rose-pink lips are closed. Soft, light brown hair is pulled back and is twisted or braided in a long plait over her right shoulder, to our left, and tied with a black bow. Wispy tendrils fall around her face and down the back of her neck, to our right. Her cream-white garment has puffed sleeves that are pushed up to or gathered at her elbow. A long necklace of the same color white hangs down her chest. Her left arm, to our right, is bent at the elbow as she holds the cord of a window shade. A ring dangles from the end of the cord, near the lower right corner of the painting. Her other hand presumably rests on or near her hip, which is out of our view, but that elbow is bent to the side. The background is mottled with elephant gray and ash brown. The portrait is loosely painted in some areas, especially in the woman’s clothing and the background. The artist signed the work in the lower left corner: “F.W. Benson.”
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