Portrait of a Lady

nationality
Flemish
birth-death
1593-1678
Creation date
Collection
European
Materials
oil on canvas
Dimensions
48 1/8 x 35 1/8 in.
Currently On View
Location
Carolyn & William C. Griffith Gallery
Credit line
Martha Delzell Memorial Fund
Accession number
56.73
Provenance
Provenance Research is on-going at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and information will be added to this record as research is completed. Please contact Annette Schlagenhauff, Assoc. Curator of Research, at aschlagenhauff@imamuseum.org with any questions.
Gallery Label

Following the death of Peter Paul Rubens in 1640 and Anthony van Dyck in 1641, Jacob Jordaens became Antwerp's leading painter. In this, a typical late portrait by Jordaens, he has endowed the anonymous sitter with a serene, monumental presence and surrounded her with signs of wealth. The presence of a parrot, a common symbol of matrimony in Flemish portraiture, suggests that this work was originally paired with a portrait of the woman's husband.

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