# Portrait of a Young Girl

- By: Pieter Dubordieu (Dutch, c. 1609–after 1678)
- Date: 1633–35
- Medium: Oil on panel
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: 58.6 × 49.8 cm (23 1/16 × 19 5/8 in.); Framed: 76.8 × 67.6 × 3.8 cm (30 1/4 × 26 5/8 × 1 1/2 in.)
- Culture: Netherlands
- Credit line: Wilson L. Mead Fund
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/20887)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/95e8a81d8653d49a2670b98911a1d2c9.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

This hauntingly simple and direct portrait of a young girl has been attributed to Pieter Dubordieu, a portrait painter who worked in Leiden, but was born in the French-speaking part of the ancient province of Flanders. The attribution to him is based on a comparison to two slightly later signed-and-dated portraits of women in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, that share the same direct, solemn gaze, crisp silhouetting of the figure, and strong pattern of light and dark.

Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0