Child in Straw Hat

The oil painting only adds to how the overall feeling of the picture will touch you. This child's stern expression sets the painting apart from other paintings I have seen of children in that era. The girls in 1886 paintings of children appear to be willing and happy in the way they looked in pictures. They smile and wear elaborate bonnets and frilly dresses to support this theory. In, Child in a Straw Hat, the little girl wears a plain, gray pinafore and a large, simple straw hat. Her wrinkly brow and sticking out upper lip suggest that she is impatient and very unwilling to cooperate to support it she may have been taken away from her play in order to pose. The way the child standing so sad and afraid of the camera in a sense shows us how she was forced to come. I don't see how a child would not want to pose for a camera or painting with all attention but this child was taken out their zone. It seems to me as thought the child was having fun playing with or whoever they were playing with. The