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Study of an old woman
Also titled Studie van een oude vrouw
Matthijs Maris (The Hague, 1839–1917)
c. 1856 - c. 1857
- Medium
- panel, paper, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 6.2 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Mr and Mrs Drucker-Fraser Bequest, Montreux
- 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
While studying at the Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts, Maris had to practise depicting facial expressions. His model’s face shows the signs of age. She has deep furrows at the corners of her mouth and around her nostrils, sunken cheeks, and grey hair. The woman’s eyes are closed, as if she has fallen asleep, or perhaps she was blind.
