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Lot description
Dated and inscribed upper right: Anno. 1641./ Ætatis.23 (only visible in UV light) A characteristic half-figure portrait of a woman by Jan van Ravesteyn, painted in 1641 and thus in his late creative phase. The sitter is a member of the de Pinto family, presumably Jewish emigrants from the Iberian Peninsula. Despite the noble simplicity of the depiction, details of the clothing, jewellery and accessories show the woman's affluence, such as the cloths layered over her chest, the rich lace trimmings, the pearl earrings, and the feather fan in her hand. There will have been a counterpart to this portrait showing the sitter's husband on the heraldic right.