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Seated Woman in Spanish Attire
Also titled Zittende vrouw in Spaanse kledij
Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen (Beverwijk, ca. –ca.)
1545
- Medium
- paper
- Classification
- Dimensions
- height 250 mm x width 174 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, 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
About this work
The woman depicted here wears a Spanish verdugado, a conical skirt stiffened with horizontal bands. The spectacular effect of light and dark perfectly shows off the raised edges and folds of the fabric. Vermeyen introduced extensive cross-hatching in the right half of the etching, thereby casting the scene almost entirely in shadow. The outlines of a sleeping dog can just be made out in the darkness.
