Shown from the knees up, a pale-skinned woman with gray hair and wearing a scarlet-red, velvet dress looks at us in this vertical portrait painting. The woman’s shoulders and face are angled slightly to our left so she gazes out of the corners of her dark blue eyes under sloping brows. Her pink lips are closed, and jowls soften her chin line. She wears a black cap over her gray hair, and gold, jeweled earrings hang from her ears. A double strand of pearls is around her neck. The bodice of her dress is cut straight across the shoulders, and white cloth covering her decolletage is tucked into…
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Portrait of a Lady

painter Nicolaes Maes (Dutch, 1634 - 1693)

1676

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 116 x 91 cm (45 11/16 x 35 13/16 in.)
Culture
Dutch
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-B
Credit line
Gift of Joseph F. McCrindle
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, 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

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