Shown from the knees up, a pale-skinned woman wears a wide, pleated collar and a black gown in this vertical portrait painting. Her body is angled to our left, and she looks at us from the corners of her light brown eyes. She has low brows, a straight nose, and her thin lips are closed. Her hair is pulled back under a pearl-white headdress at the back of her head, and a few tendrils curl alongside her face. Pearls hang from the ear we can see. The figure-eight pleats of the collar are as tall as her neck so her chin rests on it, and it is nearly as wide as her shoulders. A gold-colored…
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Portrait of a Flemish Lady

Sir Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, 1599 - 1641)

probably 1618

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 123 x 90 cm (48 7/16 x 35 7/16 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
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