Portret van een meisje, bekend als ‘Het prinsesje’
ca. 1623
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
7.3; 3.8; 78; 62.5
About this artwork
outer size: depth 7.3 cm (support incl. frame)
Art Historical Context
Paulus Moreelse's *Portret van een meisje bekend als ‘Het prinsje’* (Portrait a Girl, known asThe Little Princess'), painted around 1623, is a charming oil-on-canvas portrait measuring 78 cm high by 62.5 cm wide. Housed in the Rijksmuseum, this work exemplifies the Dutch Golden Age's mastery of portraiture, where captured the elegance and status of their subjects with remarkable realism and detail. Moreelse, a leading Utrecht painter and one of the Utrecht Caravaggisti, blended Caravaggio's dramatic light with a more restrained, classical style suited to portraiture. Here, the oil medium allo...
About the Artist
Paulus Moreelse
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