The Artist's Cousin, Probably Mrs. William Bell (Mathilde Musson, 1841–1878)

Edgar Degas

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Portrait of a woman with dark brown hair pulled back, the woman has blue eyes and is looking to her right, she has a neutral expression on her face, her clothing appears to have a high neckline and a ruffled collar, the background of the painting is brown with white and gray smudges, there is a white and gray smudge behind the woman's head resembling a halo, a fainter white and gray smudge to the right appears to be a second face.