Portrait of a Woman
ca. 1653
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
31 1/2 x 25 in. (80 x 63.5 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Marquand Collection, Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1889
Accession Number
89.15.27
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About this artwork
Adriaen Hanneman, a Dutch portraitist who spent significant time in England and was influenced by Anthony van Dyck's elegant style, created this accomplished portrait around 1653. Hanneman specialized in portraying members of the Dutch and English aristocracy during the mid-seventeenth century, a period of political upheaval that included the English Civil War and the Dutch Golden Age's height. This portrait depicts an unidentified woman dressed in the fashionable attire of the 1650s, her costum...