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Description: | Full-length portrait of a richly-dressed lady in an interior; body and face seen from the right . She wears a long black dress ornamented with pearls along the arms, and also either side of a long narrow gold-coloured central panel of the skirts, which features quatrefoil motifs within circular reserves. Lace ruff and sleeves. A gauzy headdress edges with pearls, atop which a tiara set with jewels and pearls; curly light hair pushed back exposing forehead. A necklace of a single string of pearls, and a longer necklace with jewels and pearls. A pearl bracelet on her left wrist, and a jewelled bracelet on her right; also a jewelled ring on the little finger of her right hand. Tips of each shoe visible beneath skirt. Richly-patterned oriental knotted carpet; richly red-velvet upholstered wooden armchair with tassels to seat and armrests; red velvet cushion, with pendant corner tassel, on which sitter rests her left hand. Salmon-pink silk curtains drawn apart, left and right; fringe along top edge. | Subjects: | portrait | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Geeraerts, Marcus, the younger (Flemish painter, 1561-1635, active in England) Æ School of Previously attributed to Mytens, Daniel, I (Dutch painter, ca.1590-before 1648) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8753... | Go to resource |
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