Portrait of a Woman (Marie Larp) is an oil-on-canvas portrait painting by the
Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals
Frans Hals the Elder (, , ; – 26 August 1666) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, chiefly of individual and group portraits and of genre works, who lived and worked in Haarlem.
Hals played an important role in the evolution of 17th-century group ...
, painted ca.1635–1638 and now in the
National Gallery at
London.
Painting
The painting shows a fashionably dressed woman seated in a chair and holding her bridal
stomacher with her left hand. This painting was documented by
Ernst Wilhelm Moes
Ernst Wilhelm Moes (1864 – 1912), was a Dutch art historian and director of the print cabinet for the Rijksmuseum.
Biography
According to the NNBW he studied art at the University of Amsterdam and became a print collector while still a stud ...
in 1909 and
Hofstede de Groot
Cornelis Hofstede de Groot (9 November 1863 – 14 April 1930), was a Dutch art collector, art historian and museum curator.
Life
He was born in Dwingeloo and spent some time in Switzerland in his youth due to weak lungs, where he learned Germa ...
in 1910, who wrote:
232. MARIA LARP (buried November 15, 1675), wife of Pieter Tjarck. M. 78. Half-length, in a painted oval. She faces three- quarters left and looks at the spectator. Her left hand is at her bosom; the right hand is not shown. She wears a white cap, a ruff, a black dress embroidered with white at the bosom, and lace wristbands. The colour of the face is very life-like. endant to 231.Panel, 30 inches by 27 inches. See Moes, Iconographia Batava, No. 4378. Exhibited at Brussels, 1882. Sale. Comte d'Oultremont, Brussels, June 27, 1889 (Arnold and Tripp). In the possession of the Paris dealers Arnold and Tripp. In the collection of W. C. Alexander, London.Hofstede de Groot
on "Maria Larp"; catalog number 232
This portrait has a pendant painting, depicting her husband
Pieter Tjarck, which today is in the collection of the
Los Angeles County Museum of Art at
Los Angeles:
File:Portrait of Pieter Tjarck LACMA M.74.31.jpg
File:Frans Hals - Maria Larp NG6413.jpg
File:Frans Hals, Portraits of Pieter Dircksz Tjarck and Marie Larp.jpg, The two paintings hanging together at the Frans Hals exhibition at the National Gallery, London in 2023-24.
See also
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List of paintings by Frans Hals
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Pieter Tjarck
References
External links
Painting info at museum
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1630s paintings
Larp, Marie
Paintings in the National Gallery, London
Larp, Marie