Young Woman with Her Hand over Her Mouth

ca. 1875

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Oil colors freely mixed with turpentine on canvas
Dimensions: 16 1/4 × 13 1/8 in. (41.3 × 33.4 cm)
Collection no.: 2018.289.2
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Edgar Degas. Young Woman with Her Hand over Her Mouth. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Young Woman with Her Hand over Her Mouth — Edgar Degas. ca. 1875.

Medium: Oil colors freely mixed with turpentine on canvas. Dimensions: 16 1/4 × 13 1/8 in. (41.3 × 33.4 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Gift of the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust, 2018.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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