Portret van een vrouw
1774
Medium
ivory
Dimensions
0.4; 3.7; 5.5
About this artwork
…; sale, Mss S.D.V. M. et al., Dordrecht (A. Mak), 14 (15) May 1929 sqq., no. 557, fl. 60, to Adolph Staring van de Wildenborch (1890-1980), Deventer;{Note RMA.} his widow, Jacoba Henriette Magdalena Staring - de Mol van Otterloo (1901-96), Vorden; by whom donated, with xx other objects, to the museum, 1981
Art Historical Context
**Portrait of a Woman** *Joseph Marinkel, 1774* This exquisite miniature portrait crafted in 1774 Joseph Marinkel, captures the refined elegance of 18th-century Dutch portraiture on a remarkably small scale: just 5.5 cm high by 3.7 cm wide. Carved or painted on ivory—a prized medium for intimate artworks—its delicate thickness of 0.4 cm the miniaturist's extraordinary precision. Ivory portraits like this were highly valued in the Rococo era for their portability, often adorning jewelry, snuffboxes, or lockets as cherished personal mementos among the European elite. Marinkel, a skilled pr...