A woman with pale skin, wearing a shimmering, azure-blue gown, stands next to a child with a pale pink complexion, wearing a flame-red suit in this vertical portrait painting. The woman stands at the center of the composition with her body angled to our left, but she looks at us from the corners of her brown eyes. She has a straight nose, softly arched brows, and her full, coral-pink lips are closed. A hint of a shiny silver earring pokes through brown ringlets, and one curl falls over one shoulder. Two long, white feathers droop off the side of her wide brimmed, black hat. The bodice and…
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Queen Henrietta Maria with Sir Jeffrey Hudson

Sir Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, 1599 - 1641)

1633

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 219.1 × 134.8 cm (86 1/4 × 53 1/16 in.) ; framed: 261.62 × 173.99 × 14.6 cm (103 × 68 1/2 × 5 3/4 in.)
Culture
Flemish
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-B
Credit line
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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