Portrait of Jaapgen Caerlsdr
1635
unspecified
From the collection of Rijksmuseum
1635
unspecified
From the collection of Rijksmuseum
A woman in a white cap and dark dress looks straight at you. Her hands rest on a table, one holding a folded paper. She’s 70 years old here, from a well-known family in Leiden. The way her body tilts and the soft shadows in the folds of her cap make her face seem almost real, like she could speak. The artist probably painted her in Amsterdam in 1635, the same day she stood as a witness at her granddaughter’s baptism. To see more faces like this, look up the Rijksmuseum.
