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Portrait of a Lady

Technical Details
  • Title
    Portrait of a Lady
  • Author
    Antoon van Dyck
  • Year
    1635
  • Dimensions
    cm 140 x 107
  • Inventory
    387
  • Room
    XXXI

Taking inspiration from an academic work such as the portrait of Maria de’ Medici in widow’s weeds painted by Rubens in c. 1622 and now in the Prado, Van Dick offers us a painting of the highest quality depicting a lady of the Croy family from Brussels in mourning. Despite her condition, however, she wears bracelets, necklaces, pearl earrings and a costly cross around her neck to lighten her sombre attire in a picture which also relies on the large and sumptuos hangings to alleviate the gloom.

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