This painting depicts a woman facing the right, either standing or seated. She has fair skin, pink cheeks, pale eyebrows, blue eyes, and pink lips in a neutral expression. Her hair is curly and voluminous, styled back in two bunches with ringlets falling over her shoulders. It is gray towards the roots, but the ends appear to be brown. She is wearing a luxurious, gold-colored satin gown with draped white sleeves and a white undershirt peeking out at the neckline. The skirts bunch around her, obscuring her lower body. A single strand of pearls adorns her neck, and we see one dangling pearl…
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Lady Borlase

painter Gerard Soest (Dutch, c. 1601/1602 - 1681)

c. 1672/1675

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 127 x 103.2 cm (50 x 40 5/8 in.) ; framed: 142.9 x 119.7 cm (56 1/4 x 47 1/8 in.)
Culture
British
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-B
Credit line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Gray
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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