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Gallery Text

Based in Amsterdam, Santvoort painted portraits that painstakingly document his sitters illuminated against a dark background. Pictured here is a young woman wearing a high-waist gown in black silk with a bobbinlaced partlet (a decorative garment that covers the neck and upper chest), which is layered under a matching kerchief, a square fabric folded diagonally and worn around the shoulders. The scallop pattern of these fabrics is echoed in the edges of the coif and cuffs. The sitter’s ribbons and stomacher, woven with silver and gold threads and glistening with light, underscore her wealth. Along with the folding fan and pearl necklace and earrings, these sartorial elements were highly fashionable from the mid-1630s into the 1640s.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1990.77
People
Dirck Dirckszoon van Santvoort, Dutch (1610/1611 - 1680)
Title
Portrait of a Young Woman
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Elisabet de St. Gilles, betrothed to N. van Lier
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1635 - 1640
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/221477

Location

Location
Level 2, Room 2300, European Art, 17th–19th century, Seventeenth–Century Dutch and Flemish Art
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Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on panel
Dimensions
63.5 × 52 cm (25 × 20 1/2 in.)
framed: 95.6 × 85.8 cm (37 5/8 × 33 3/4 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Bequest of Hetty L. Shuman Kuhn
Accession Year
1990
Object Number
1990.77
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2300 Dutch & Flemish, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/17/2018 - 09/25/2019; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/01/2019 - 01/01/2050

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