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Portrait Bust of a Woman in Friesian Costume
(Baroque Europe )
This piece is a pair with Walters 38.553. This painting depicts a wife, and the companion painting depicts her husband. These tiny little miniatures were surely intended for personal contemplation, perhaps as a reminder of relatives who lived too far way to visit.
While the husband's collar and the wife's starched ruff were worn throughout the Dutch Republic during the mid 17th century, the woman's bejeweled headdress points to the taste for more local "folk" styles common in the northern part of the country. Especially in more provincial areas, the portraits of wives were often more conservative in style and execution than those of their husbands.
Provenance
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Abraham Jay Fink, Baltimore [no. A-279a]; A. Jay Fink Foundation, Inc., Baltimore, 1963, by bequest; Walters Art Museum, 1963, by gift.
Geographies
Netherlands (Place of Origin)
Measurements
Framed H: 3 in. (7.62 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of the A. Jay Fink Foundation, Inc., in memory of Abraham Jay Fink, 1963
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
38.552
