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A Woman
Also titled Een vrouw
Jan Jansz Mostaert (Haarlem, 1465–1552)
c. 1520
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- painted surface: height 62.8 cm x width 48 cm
- 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
In Northern Europe portraits were less idealized than in Italy. That is not to say that the women there were more modest. While this lady presents an unadorned face, her clothes are particularly sumptuous. Her gown is made of brown silk damask and the pinkish-red underdress is interwoven with gold thread. She was undoubtedly wealthy and came from the vicinity of Haarlem or from Mechelen, where Mostaert was also active.
