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Description: | This striking picture of a girl looking seductively out at the viewer relates to paintings made by Caravaggio's northern followers, such as Gerrit van Honthorst. These works show women dressed in fine feathers and pearls holding an assortment of objects including, in one instance, a nest of doves. The women are often shown displaying their cleavage and breasts, emphasising the erotic nature of these paintings, a feature stressed in this work by the dove, both a symbol of innocence and an attribute of Venus. The style suggests it is not seventeenth-century, but by a later follower of this format. | Subjects: | everyday life; figure | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Flemish School Æ Attributed to | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8657... | Go to resource |
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