A young girl with light skin, round, rosy cheeks, and blond hair holds an apple and wears a full, ankle-length, silvery white dress with puffy sleeves in this vertical portrait painting. She stands with her body slightly angled to our left, and she turns her face to look at us with large, dark blue eyes under faint brows. Her wavy blond hair falls to her chin and glimmers where it catches the light. Her nose and cheeks are flushed, and her rose-red lips are closed. She holds a red and green apple with both hands at her waist. Her dress has a high neck and voluminous, puffy sleeves with lace…
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Maddalena Cattaneo

Sir Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, 1599 - 1641)

1623

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 122.5 x 84.1 cm (48 1/4 x 33 1/8 in.) ; framed: 163.2 x 125.1 cm (64 1/4 x 49 1/4 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
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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