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A Portrait of a Woman
Jan de Bray (Dutch, c. 1627-1697)
1650
- Medium
- Black and red chalk on ivory laid paper
- Classification
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions
- 16.4 × 12.8 cm (6 1/2 × 5 1/16 in.)
- Culture
- Netherlands
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Margaret Day Blake Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Jan de Bray used finely pointed red and black chalk in alternation to describe the facial features of middle-aged residents of the city of Haarlem. He also captured the distinctive features of their clothing, such as buttons, pleats, seams, and the stiffly pressed lace of their elaborate collars.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
