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Like her hair, her dress is unpretentious. In the bourgeois fashion of the later part of the seventeenth century in the Southern Netherlands, her sleeves are slashed to show the white satin of her undergarment. The pearls around her neck glint in the light, and behind her a deep, red silk curtain makes a warm, flattering background.
Title
Portrait of an Elderly Woman
Date
late 17th C
Medium
Oil on canvas
Measurements
H 70.9 x W 60.6 cm
Accession number
NG3963
Acquisition method
Sir Claude Phillips Bequest, 1924
Work type
Painting
The National Gallery, London
Trafalgar Square, London, Greater London WC2N 5DN England
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