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Portrait of an Old Lady, possibly Elisabeth Bas
Also titled Portret van een vrouw, mogelijk Elisabeth Bas
Ferdinand Bol (Dordrecht, 1616–1680)
c. 1640 - c. 1645
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 118 cm x width 91.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Jonkheer J.S.H. van de Poll Bequest, Amsterdam
- 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
This portrait may depict Elisabeth Bas. Like many seafarers’ wives, Bas managed the provisioning of the fleet of her husband, Admiral Jochem Swartenhondt. Together with him, she also ran a distinguished inn, which she continued on her own after his demise. This painting was long attributed to Rembrandt, but it was painted in his style by one of his pupils, Ferdinand Bol.
