Portrait of a Young Girl
1633–35
Medium
Oil on panel
Dimensions
58.6 × 49.8 cm (23 1/16 × 19 5/8 in.); Framed: 76.8 × 67.6 × 3.8 cm (30 1/4 × 26 5/8 × 1 1/2 in.)
Classification
oil on panel
Department
Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
20887
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
This hauntingly simple and direct portrait of a young girl has been attributed to Pieter Dubordieu, a portrait painter who worked in Leiden, but was born in the French-speaking part of the ancient province of Flanders. The attribution to him is based on a comparison to two slightly later signed-and-dated portraits of women in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, that share the same direct, solemn gaze, crisp silhouetting of the figure, and strong pattern of light and dark.