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A Young Woman Sewing [recto]
c. 1790
- Dating
- Approximate
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- pen and brown ink over graphite on gray-blue paper
- Dimensions
- overall: 16.4 x 11.5 cm (6 7/16 x 4 1/2 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1991.215.1.a
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Vivant Denon. A Young Woman Sewing [recto]. Vivant Denon; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vivant_Denon,_A_Young_Woman_Sewing_(recto),_c._1790,_NGA_74095.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
A Young Woman Sewing [recto] — Vivant Denon. c. 1790.
Medium: pen and brown ink over graphite on gray-blue paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 16.4 x 11.5 cm (6 7/16 x 4 1/2 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1991.215.1.a. Gift of The Christian Humann Foundation, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.