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Portrait of Lysbeth van Duvenvoirde
Also titled Portret van Lysbeth van Duvenvoirde
c. 1430
- Medium
- parchment (animal material), oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- frame: height 42 cm x width 29.3 cm x thickness 5.9 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis
- 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
‘Long have I yearned for the man who would open his heart.’ With these words, inscribed in Middle Dutch on the S-shaped banderole, Lysbeth van Duvenvoirde expressed her feelings for her husband. She was from a noble Dutch family and married the knight Simon van Adrichem in 1430. In this portrait she is wearing her wedding jewellery: a necklace, five rings, and a belt with little bells.
