Shown from the waist up, a woman looks at us steadily from behind an oval opening in this vertical portrait, which is painted entirely in tones of sepia and golden brown. The woman’s shoulders and face are angled to our left, but she looks at us with large, dark eyes. She has a narrow face with a slightly bumped nose, high cheekbones, a dimple under her lower lip, and her mouth is closed. Her dark hair is pulled back, and curls fall to her shoulders. The bodice of her dress and the voluminous sleeves glint with highlights, suggesting satin or silk. A sheer cloth covering her chest may be…
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Anna Maria van Schurman

painter Cornelis Jonson van Ceulen (English, 1593 - 1661)

1657

Medium
oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 31 × 24.4 cm (12 3/16 × 9 5/8 in.) ; framed: 44.45 × 38.1 × 3.81 cm (17 1/2 × 15 × 1 1/2 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
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