This painting shows a woman standing in a room, her body slightly turned to the left and her head turned to face us. She has a fair complexion, arched dark eyebrows, a pointed nose, a high forehead, and curly hair in an updo under a short black headdress. She is wearing a black gown with white lace trim on the collar and sleeves and a cream-colored underskirt with gold embroidery. Her hands are in her skirt, holding bunches of black fabric. She stands next to a table on the left with various items on it, including a bowl of fruit, a silver pitcher, and a black tray. A chair is positioned…
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Maria van Suchtelen

painter Gerard ter Borch the Younger (Dutch, 1617 - 1681)

c. 1666

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 80.5 × 63.8 cm (31 11/16 × 25 1/8 in.) ; framed: 101.6 × 101.28 × 8.89 cm (40 × 39 7/8 × 3 1/2 in.)
Culture
Dutch
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-B
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection, 1926)
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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