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Shown from the knees up, a woman with smooth, pale skin and rosy cheeks wears a satin gown and densely pleated, wide collar in this vertical portrait painting. She stands with her body angled to our left but turns to look at us from the corners of her luminous brown eyes. She has curved, black brows, a straight nose, and her strawberry-red, bow-shaped lips turn up in a slight smile. Her honey-brown hair is tightly curled under an elaborate pearl, gold, and feather headdress in the shape of a bouquet of flowers. The pearl earring in the ear we can see rests against the lace-edged ruff, which…
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Marchesa Brigida Spinola Doria

Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577 - 1640)

1606

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 152.5 x 99 cm (60 1/16 x 39 in.) ; framed: 188 x 134.6 x 10.8 cm (74 x 53 x 4 1/4 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
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