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an old painting of a woman in a black dress with a white collara painting of a man in a black dress with a white collara picture of an old wooden picture frame on the wall
Dams Casa d'Aste

39 - Portrait of a Young Woman, Dutch School, 17th century, oil o…
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Estimate €800 - €1,200
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Portrait of a Young Woman, Dutch School, 17th century, oil on panel, 25.3 x 18.5 cm The painting depicts a young woman in half-length portrait, viewed from the front with her hand raised to her chest against a subtly modulated background, darker on the left-hand side and gradually lightening behind her, a lighting technique that accentuates the figure’s three-dimensionality and focuses attention on her face and the delicate rendering of her clothing. The austerity of the dark dress is enlivened by the large, finely crafted light-coloured cape, the snow-white cuffs and the subtle red accents adorning the sleeves, the collar fastening and the hairstyle.The work is fully in keeping with the culture of mid-17th-century Dutch portraiture and shows significant affinities with the work of Gerard ter Borch the Younger (1617–1681), both in the intimate composition of the figure and in the choice of a deliberately restrained colour palette, which plays on the contrast between the brown background, the dark dress and the pearly tones of the skin and fabrics.A particularly significant comparison can be drawn with Gerard ter Borch’s *Portrait of a Woman*, held at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, inv. SK-A-403, which features a similar half-length composition, the wide light-coloured collar superimposed on the dark dress, the subtle red colour accents, and the same attention to the rendering of the fabrics and the complexion. The work in the Rijksmuseum, executed in oil on copper and signed ‘GTB’, is also documented in the Hofstede de Groot catalogue, 1913, no. 371.In this portrait, the restrained pose, the gaze directed towards the viewer and the measured gesture of the hand lend the figure that understated elegance and intimate quality characteristic of the portraiture that developed around Ter Borch and his circle in the second half of the seventeenth century. The meticulous rendering of the costume, particularly the embroidered cape and the cuffs, is one of the work’s finest qualities. In a contemporary frame.
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About the sale Paintings and Drawings from the 15th to the 19th century
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Auction time 10/29/2026 at 3:00 PM
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