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Description: | The woman represented in this portrait wears a large white ruff and an elaborate lace cap that correspond to Flemish fashions of the first half of the seventeenth century. The cross hanging from a golden chain over her black dress may identify the unknown sitter as a Catholic. The fleur-de-lis in her coat of arms suggest that her family may have been connected with France. Although it is not executed in his style, this painting was previously thought to be a copy after Peter Paul Rubens. | Subjects: | portrait | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Flemish School Æ Attributed to Previously attributed to after Rubens, Peter Paul (Flemish painter and draftsman, 1577-1640) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8921... | Go to resource |
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