Shown from the knees up, a pale-skinned woman wearing a black dress with white cuffs and a wide, starched collar sits in a wooden chair against a dark brown background in this vertical portrait painting. Her body faces us and she looks off to our left with brown eyes. She has slight jowls at her chin and her eyes, mouth, and forehead are lined. Her hair is pulled back under a close-fitting black cap. Extending straight from around her neck, her white collar is pleated into narrow figure-eights and nearly reaches her shoulders. She wears a brown stole over her velvety black dress, and both…
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An Old Lady with a Book

painter Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606 - 1669)

painter Dutch 17th Century

1637

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 109.7 × 91.5 cm (43 3/16 × 36 in.) ; framed: 146.69 × 129.54 × 14.29 cm (57 3/4 × 51 × 5 5/8 in.)
Culture
Dutch
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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