Portrait of a Young Woman

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In this painting the artist combines the genre scene and portraiture; the portrait of the woman is integrated into an everyday scene. There is a companion-piece, Portrait of a Man, portraying obviously the husband of the unidentified woman. Formerly the painting was attributed to Antonie Palamedesz.

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About the Artist

Hendrick Gerritsz Pot

1580 – 1657

Dutch painter, a pupil of Karl van Mander. He probably came into contact with Frans Hals, whose large-scale genre scenes he sometimes imitated. His artistic production, however, was oriented towards portraits and small-sized genre paintings. The small genre scenes in carefully worked-out interiors show their debt to Willem Buytewech.

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