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Portrait of a Girl, Known as ‘The Little Princess’
Also titled Portret van een meisje, bekend als ‘Het prinsesje’
Paulus Moreelse (Utrecht, ca. –voor)
c. 1623
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- outer size: depth 7.3 cm (support incl. frame)
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- 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
This young girl is portrayed at her most beautiful, in her finest dress and bedecked with jewels, for which she was dubbed ‘the little princes.’ In the 17th century children were represented as small adults. Not only are her clothes a copy of women’s fashion, but her regal pose also makes a very grown-up impression. Paulus Moreelse received numerous commissions from the circles around the stadholder’s court, which favoured a conservative, classic portrait style.
