Margaret Stuyvesant Rutherford White made quite an impact on her expatriate acquaintances in Europe. Novelist Edith Wharton recalled her striking beauty: "It is hard to picture nowadays the shell-like transparence, the luminous red-and-white, of those young cheeks untouched by paint or powder, in which the blood came and went like the lights of an aurora." Although she app...
Size:
225.1 × 143.8 cm (88 5/8 × 56 5/8 in.)
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Credit:
Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art, Washington
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