A tall woman with pale white skin and a shorter man with brown skin stand on a terrace in this vertical, full-length portrait. At the center, the woman wears a voluminous, long-sleeved, black dress with a row of gold buttons down the bodice. She has a wide, gray ruffled collar at her neck and red ruffled cuffs at her wrists. Her brown hair is pulled back under a cap ornamented with rows of white pearls. She looks at us close-lipped down the bridge of her straight nose. She holds a sprig of orange blossoms in her right hand, on our left. The second person leans into the space from our right…
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Marchesa Elena Grimaldi Cattaneo

Sir Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, 1599 - 1641)

1623

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 242.9 × 138.5 cm (95 5/8 × 54 1/2 in.) ; framed: 271.46 × 166.37 × 12.7 cm (106 7/8 × 65 1/2 × 5 in.)
Culture
Flemish
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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