Head of a Young Girl

Lucia Fairchild Fuller, born Boston, MA 1870-died Madison, WI 1924 · ca. 1900

The artist chose to place this unknown young lady against an “Oriental” background of tall grass, birds, and a large setting sun. The sitter’s vast puffed sleeves were known as gigot or leg-of-mutton sleeves, which grew to fantastic proportions during the last decade of the nineteenth century.