''Portrait of a Woman Standing'' is a 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 in 1610–1615 and now in
Chatsworth House
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. It is considered a
pendant portrait, but the sitter is unknown and therefore the pendant is not certain.
Painting
This painting was documented by
Hofstede de Groot in 1910, who wrote:
PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN STANDING. B. 145; M. 197. Almost three-quarter-length. She is turned three-quarters left, and looks at the spectator. Her left hand grasps her gold chain; the right hand is extended before her. She wears a lace-trimmed cap, a black silk dress, a ruff, and lace wristbands. To the left is a coat-of-arms, which has been repainted. This is not, as has been assumed, a pendant to 287. It was painted about the years 1630–35. Inscribed near the coat-of-arms, "aeta suae 37"; panel, 37 inches by 28 inches (within the frame). Exhibited at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1904, No. 284. In the collection of the Duke of Devonshire
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, London.
In 1974
Seymour Slive
Seymour Slive (September 15, 1920 – June 14, 2014) was an American art historian, who served as director of the Harvard Art Museums from 1975 to 1984. Slive was a scholar of Dutch art, specifically of the artists Rembrandt, Frans Hals, and Jac ...
listed the painting as the pendant of ''A Man Holding a Skull'' and claimed then that despite cleaning of the coat of arms and recent documents the provenance was still inconclusive, and he read the inscription as "aeta suae 31", leading him to conclude the woman was aged 31 at marriage rather than 37. Slive felt the painting could be dated to Hals' earliest period but felt there was too little "Hals juvenalia" to date it with certainty before 1610. In 1989
Claus Grimm listed it again as a pendant of the ''Man Holding a Skull'' but felt that it may have been painted somewhat later, but agreed with Slive that the period was before 1620.
[Frans Hals The Complete Work, 1989, a catalog raisonné of Hals works by Claus Grimm, catalog number 7]
Possible pendants
The possible pendants of this painting are
File:Frans Hals 080.jpg, Hofstede de Groot catalog entry 287 (also located at Chatsworth House, this painting is attributed to Hals, but Hofstede de Groot rejected it as a pendant to this portrait)
File:Frans Hals - Portrait of a Man Holding a Skull.JPG, Painting of ''A Man Holding a Skull'', attributed to the period around 1616 when Hals painted his first militia company
See also
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List of paintings by Frans Hals
References
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1610s paintings
Woman Standing
Paintings in the Devonshire Collection