A Young Woman
Medium
oil on wood
Dimensions
unframed: 16.3 × 12.1 cm · framed: 35 × 31 × 5 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
European Painting and Sculpture
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Bequest of William G. Mather
Accession Number
1951.325
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
male
About this artwork
This painting may depict a specific person as in a traditional portrait. The less formal costume and the tight focus on the head, however, may mean that it is a tronie, a popular category of painting among Dutch painters in the 1600s. While painted from living models, tronies represent more general types of people, designed as beautiful images rather than accurate likenesses of people known to their patrons.