File:Portrait of Archduchess Isabella, by Frans Pourbus the Younger.jpg

Identifier: frick-31072001452285 (find matches)
Title: Early English, Dutch and Flemish paintings at the Blakeslee Galleries, 353 Fifth Avenue .. (electronic resource)
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Blakeslee Galleries (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects: Painting
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Frick Art Reference Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Metropolitan New York Library Council – METRO

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f Mantua, sister of Marie de Medici,in her progress through France. Perhaps never has this distinguished painter attacked amore difficult problem than the present canvas, which rep-resents the royal lady in the most intricate costume of aperiod when costumes ran riot in a maze of embroideries,decorations, and subtle eccentricities of the dressmakers art.Not content with a ruff of amazing complications of needle-work and lace, the sitter wears a dress literally covered witha mass of jewels, trimming, and embroideries. All thesePourbus has caught with almost photographic exactness,never, however, neglecting the face, which is painted with adistinction that holds the spectator long before the eye isattracted to the sartorial embellishment of the woman. Theright hand holds a fan, and upon the thumb is a signet ring;the left hand rests on the dress, while on the wrist is a gor-geous bracelet. A monogram is embroidered on the rightbreast, and the hair is worn dressed back from the forehead.
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■CHDUCHESS ISABEL. No. 59. GERARD VAN HONTHORST.1590—J656. A Lute Player. Height, 37 inches. Width, 33 inches. CHARLES L invited Honthorst to come from his nativeHolland to England, where he was employed in 1628 inpainting the palace of Whitehall with allegorical figures. Healso decorated the palace and the House in the Woods inThe Hague, and painted a series of pictures for the King ofDenmark. The latter part of his life he gave to portraiture.An able, serious colorist and draughtsman, Van Honthorsthas secured an unusually fine result in this canvas. The lady,a dark beauty with black hair arranged with feathers andwearing a loose gown of blue and white, plays the lute.Music is on a table to her right, and her body is bent forward.The tones of the picture are of fine quality, and the brush-work is authoritative, while the drawing is excellent and thewhole freely handled. No. 60.FEDERIGO ZUCCARO. *543—1609.Lady of the Elizabethan Period. Height, 46 inches. Width, 38 inches. FOUND

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