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A woman with pale skin, wearing a black dress and holding a full, billowing white ostrich feather, is shown from the hips up against a dark background in this vertical portrait painting. She has dark eyes, faint, arched brows, a slightly pink nose, and her pink lips are parted. Light falls from our left, creating shadows under the other cheekbone and along the side of her neck. Her shoulders are covered by a transparent, white, lace-edged wrap fastened with a bow. Her black dress also has wide, white cuffs, exposing a thick, possibly jeweled bracelet on each wrist. She wears two gold rings,…
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Portrait of a Lady with an Ostrich-Feather Fan

Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606 - 1669)

c. 1656/1658

Medium
oil on canvas transferred to canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 99.5 × 83 cm (39 3/16 × 32 11/16 in.) ; framed: 132.08 × 115.25 × 13.97 cm (52 × 45 3/8 × 5 1/2 in.)
Culture
Dutch
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-B
Credit line
Widener Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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