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Something beautiful: embroidered voile

Portrait of a Free Woman of Color Wearing a Tignon, Louis Antoine Collas, 1829


I love so many things about this painting in the New Orleans Museum of Art: her eyes, her hands, her colorful head wrap. But I most love the sheer embroidered voile wrap she's wearing. Isn't it incredible how color and shape and line become meaning in the hands of a patient, tender artist?



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