A Portrait of a Woman
Jan de Bray
1650
- Medium
- Black and red chalk on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 16.4 × 12.8 cm (6 1/2 × 5 1/16 in.)
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)prints and drawingpaper (fiber product)
About
Jan de Bray used finely pointed red and black chalk in alternation to describe the facial features of middle-aged residents of the city of Haarlem. He also captured the distinctive features of their clothing, such as buttons, pleats, seams, and the stiffly pressed lace of their elaborate collars.
