Portrait of Aegje Hasselaer
Also titled Portret van Aegje Hasselaer
Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt (Delft, 1567–1641)
1640
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- outer size: depth 9.5 cm (support incl. frame)
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of Jonkheer J.S.R. van de Poll, Arnhem
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
The half-length portraits of Henrick Hooft and Aegje Hasselaer present Amsterdam's future burgomaster and his brand-new bride in expensive, fashionable attire. Their modern, flat collars are trimmed with lace. Following the latest trend they wear their hair long and loose. Aegje is decked out with costly earrings and a breast ornament, while scores of pearls grace her neck and collar.
