Woman with low decolletage and pearl necklace, her hair in loose ringlets
Portrait of a woman, head and shoulders slightly turned to left, with hair parted in the middle in two tresses tied in two bows falling over her shoulders, wearing pearl necklace and shoulder wrap with scalloped lace border joined with jewel in the front, over black dress decorated with three white bands
Artwork Details
- Title: Woman with low decolletage and pearl necklace, her hair in loose ringlets
- Series/Portfolio: Women's Heads Framed in Roundels : Twenty-three plates (New Hollstein 694-716)
- Artist: Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, Prague 1607–1677 London)
- Date: 1646
- Medium: Etching; first state of four
- Dimensions: Sheet: 3 7/8 × 3 3/4 in. (9.8 × 9.6 cm)
Cut within the platemark at top and bottom, on the platemark at sides - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1920
- Object Number: 20.81.3.252
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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