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Painting of a stately woman seated on a red velvet chair in a blood-red room, a blue-white fireplace to her left. She glances down at the floor with a serene expression toward a tiny blond child—a baby—who sits on the floor tearing up paper, her pink-clad back facing the viewer.

The Red Room, Etretat

1899

Félix Edouard Vallotton (Swiss, 1865–1925)

Switzerland

Oil on artist's board

Painting and Sculpture of Europe