''Portrait of a Young Woman with a Fan'' is a 1633 portrait painting by

Rembrandt Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (, ; 15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669), usually simply known as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker and draughtsman. An innovative and prolific master in three media, he is generally consid ...

. It shows a woman holding a fan, pendant to ''

Portrait of a Man Rising from His Chair ''Portrait of a Man Rising from His Chair'' is a painting by the Dutch painter Rembrandt, painted in 1633. It hangs in the Taft Museum of Art of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. The oil-on-canvas portrait measures . It is signed and dated 1633, ...

''. It is in the collection of the

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created this painting as a pendant to the Taft Museum's portrait of a man, probably as a wedding pendant. Only a few pairs of pendant portraits by Rembrandt have survived. This half of the pair came into the collection via the

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bequest in 1945. This painting was documented by

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 1914, who wrote; "881. A YOUNG LADY WITH A FAN. Bode 253; Dut. 285; Wb. 217; B.-HdG. 101. Three-quarter length; life size. She sits, seen in full face, in an arm-chair, and looks straight out of the picture. She holds her right hand, grasping a black feather fan by its gold chain, to her bosom; her left hand rests on a table beside her to the right. She wears a black silk gown with puffed and slashed sleeves, a triple close-fitting lace collar and lace wristbands. Round her neck is a double string of pearls; on both arms are strings of pearls and a ruby bracelet; there are pearls in her ears. She has dull fair curly hair and a fresh complexion. The light falls from the left foreground. Painted about 1633. ossibly pendant to 736.Canvas, 50 1/2 inches by 40 inches. Mentioned by Bode, p. 459; Dutuit, p. 46;

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, p. 559 33 Exhibited at the British Institution, London, 1822, No. 13; at the

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Winter Exhibition, London, 1899, No. 55. In the collection of Lord Leconfield,

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."881. A Young Lady with a Fan
in Hofstede de Groot, 1914 The painting was included in most Rembrandt catalogs of the 20th-century, and the

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agrees with Hofstede de Groot's pairing of this painting with the Taft Museum's portrait. According to

Walter Liedtke Walter Arthur Liedtke, Jr. (August 28, 1945 – February 3, 2015) was an American art historian, writer and Curator of Dutch and Flemish Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was known as one of the world's leading scholars of Dutch an ...

, the features of this woman closely resemble another portrait in the

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. File:A man rising from his chair, by Rembrandt.jpg, The man's portrait hangs on the left File:Rembrandt - Portrait of a Young Woman with a Fan.JPG, The woman's portrait hangs on the right File:Rembrandt van Rijn - Portrait of a Young Woman - Google Art Project.jpg, Houston painting (no pendant known)

References

Cat. no. 146
in ''Dutch Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art'' Volume I, by

, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007

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''Portrait of a woman, 1633 gedateerd''
in the

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''Portrait of a Young Woman with a Fan''
in the

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