Portrait of a Woman with a Dog
1635
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1635
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
You see a woman in a stiff white collar and black dress, holding a small dog in her lap. Her gold ring glints, and lace cuffs peek from her sleeves. The painting feels half-finished—her husband’s portrait was meant to hang beside it, but no one’s found it yet. That missing half makes you wonder about the stories these portraits were supposed to tell. For more portraits like this, look up *Dutch Golden Age*.
