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The image depicts a woman with an oval face, high cheekbones, a narrow nose, and slightly parted lips. Her hair is styled upwards with a central part and adorned with jewelry near her left eyebrow. She wears a gown with a large lace ruff around her shoulders decorated with a floral pattern and a chain of pearls and jewels across her chest. The background consists of a simple linear pattern.
National Gallery of Art · Print
Anne of Denmark, Queen of Scotland and England
Pieter de Jode I
- Date
- 1603
- Medium
- engraving
- Dimensions
- plate: 17.8 × 14.5 cm (7 × 5 11/16 in.)
- Classification
- Print · Historical Portrait
- Accession number
- 1951.11.956
- Credit line
- Rosenwald Collection
- Time span
- 1601 to 1650
- Department
- CG-E
Subjects and terms
- Flemish
Provenance
Unidentified private collector "Walmsley" (not in Lugt). W. B. Dukes [d. 1942], London, (L.2757a); (Sotheby, London, sale July 8, 1942, no. 112); Hermann Marx [d. 1948], Surrey, (L.2816a); (Sotheby, London, sale May 24, 1948, no. 165); Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891 - 1979], Philadelphia, (L.1932d); gift to NGA, 1951.
NGA object ID 41238. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.