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Portrait of Petronella Dunois
Also titled Portret van Petronella Dunois
Nicolaes Maes (Dordrecht, 1634–1693)
1677 - 1685
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 69.2 cm x width 57.8 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the VSBfonds
- 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
Petronella Dunois meticulously assembled the dolls’ house displayed here at the right. She commissioned various craftsmen to create each component. When she wed Pieter Groenendijk, her dolls’ house was one of the most valuable possessions she brought into the marriage, alongside customary assets such as securities and an impressive amount of linen
