Portrait of a Young Girl
Pieter Dubordieu
1633–1635
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Dimensions
- 58.6 × 49.8 cm (23 1/16 × 19 5/8 in.); Framed: 76.8 × 67.6 × 3.8 cm (30 1/4 × 26 5/8 × 1 1/2 in.)
- Genre
- oil on panel
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
oil paintings (visual works)paintingluxurypaintdutchjewelrygirlportraits: female subjectoil on panelplant materialportraitpanel paintingoil paint (paint)painting (image making)17th Centurypainting techniqueswood (plant material)organic materialportraitsoil paintingpanel (wood)european paintingdresses
About
This hauntingly simple and direct portrait of a young girl has been attributed to Pieter Dubordieu, a portrait painter who worked in Leiden, but was born in the French-speaking part of the ancient province of Flanders. The attribution to him is based on a comparison to two slightly later signed-and-dated portraits of women in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, that share the same direct, solemn gaze, crisp silhouetting of the figure, and strong pattern of light and dark.