# Portrait of Adriana Croes

- By: Johannes Verspronck (Haarlem, 1600–1662)
- Date: 1644
- Medium: canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: outer size: depth 8 cm (support incl. SK-L-4523)
- Credit line: Purchased with the support of the BankGiro Lottery
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-4998--9c3cd82d6147acc041fc966e93c66703)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/rKhBS/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Adriana Croes had herself immortalized by Verspronck when she had been widowed for several years. She and her husband, the cloth merchant Hendrick Pietersz Strijp, had five daughters. Years later, one of them, Maria, and her husband, Eduard Wallis, were also portrayed by Verspronck; their likenesses hang nearby. Adriana’s face is so realistically painted that it seems to reflect all her joys and sorrows.