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Description: | In seventeenth-century Dutch paintings of everyday life, old women were sometimes depicted engaged in domestic activities such as spinning or sewing. This elderly woman unwinds thread from a reel. Frans and Dirck Hals of Haarlem are considered pioneers of Dutch genre painting. It has been suggested that the unknown artist responsible for this painting also came from Haarlem and here deliberately imitated the style of the Hals family of artists. The artist has animated the woman by 'drawing' her with dry, slightly sketchy brushstrokes, while the colour range is sober and is based mainly on brown tones. | Subjects: | figure (old woman); everyday life | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Hals, Frans (Dutch painter, born ca. 1581, died 1666) Æ School of Imitator of Hals family (Dutch family of artists, active ca. 1590-ca. 1690) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8889... | Go to resource |
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