Portrait of a Girl Dressed in Blue
Also titled Portret van een meisje in het blauw
Johannes Verspronck (Haarlem, 1600–1662)
1641
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- support: height 82 cm x width 66.7 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt
- 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
Why is this portrait so popular? Because it depicts an adorable child dressed in her Sunday best? As was the custom of the day, the young girl is portrayed as a small adult lady. That she is playing a role is betrayed only by her facial expression. Unfortunately, we know nothing about her identity or her family. Perhaps she resided in Haarlem, like the portraitist Verspronck.
