A woman with a pale, peachy skin stands wearing a voluminous rose-pink, silk dress and holding a wreath of pink and white roses and greenery in this vertical portrait painting. Shown from the hips up, her body faces our right in profile, and she turns to look at us from the corners of her dark gray eyes. Her light brown hair is pulled up but curls frame her oval face and pointed chin, and falls in ringlets to the base of her neck. She has gently curved eyebrows, a straight nose, and her small pink lips are closed. There may be some red flowers in her hair, but these are lost in the nearly…
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Catherine Howard, Lady d'Aubigny

Sir Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, 1599 - 1641)

c. 1638

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 106.7 × 85.4 cm (42 × 33 5/8 in.) ; framed: 140.97 × 119.38 × 16.83 cm (55 1/2 × 47 × 6 5/8 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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