Portrait of a Woman
1650
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
49 3/8 x 37 3/4 in. (125.4 x 95.9 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
89.15.28
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the elegant world of 17th-century portraiture with *Portrait of a Woman* by Jürgen Ovens, created around 1650. Ovens, a Dutch painter born in Amsterdam in 1623, trained under Rembrandt van Rijn before becoming court painter to the Dukes of Holstein in northern Germany. This oil-on-canvas work, measuring an impressive 49 3/8 x 37 3/4 inches, exemplifies the Baroque era's focus on grandeur and realism, capturing the sitter's poised dignity amid the Dutch Golden Age's cultural flourishing. Ovens masterfully employs oil's versatility for luminous skin tones, intricate lace details, and ...