![Eugène Delacroix - Orphan Girl at the Cemetery [c.1823-24] by Gandalf's Gallery](http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5531/9689276487_1098112548.jpg)
An air of sorrow and fearfulness emanates from the picture, and tears well from the eyes of the grief-stricken girl as she looks apprehensively upward. The background depicts her melancholy; in the dimness of the sky and the abandoned ground. The girl's body language and clothing evoke tragedy and vulnerability: the dress drooping down from her shoulder, a hand laid weakly on her thigh, the shadows above the nape of her neck, the darkness at her left side, and the cold and pale colouring of her attire. All these are combined to emphasise a sense of loss, of unreachable hope, her isolation, and the absence of any means of help, as she is also looking on toward an unseen and unknown spectacle or spectre.
[Louvre Museum, Paris - Oil on canvas, 66 x 54 cm]