A young girl stands next to and holds the hand of an elegantly dressed woman sitting in a wooden armchair near stone columns, in front of a crimson-red curtain pulled up to reveal a distant landscape view in this vertical portrait painting. The child and woman have smooth, light skin, and the fabric of their dresses has a silken sheen. To our right, the woman sits with her knees angled slightly to our left, and she looks at us with dark blue eyes under faint brows. Her brown hair is pulled back from her high forehead under a hair covering set with pearls. Her pointed chin is slightly pulled…
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Susanna Fourment and Her Daughter

painter Sir Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, 1599 - 1641)

1621

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 172 × 117 cm, 106 lb. (67 11/16 × 46 1/16 in., 48.081 kg) ; framed: 204.47 × 149.86 × 12.7 cm (80 1/2 × 59 × 5 in.)
Culture
Flemish
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-B
Credit line
Andrew W. Mellon 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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