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Hans Bock the Elder Portrait of Eva Truchsess von Rheinfelden 1580 oil on canvas Kunstmuseum, Basel |
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Bartholomäus Bruyn the Younger Portrait of a Lady of the von Kreps Family ca. 1580-85 oil on panel Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto |
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Jacopo Bassano Portrait of a Woman ca. 1580-90 oil on canvas Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California |
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Alonso Sánchez Coello Portrait of a Young Noblewoman 1593 oil on canvas Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California |
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workshop of Marcus Geeraerts the Younger Portrait of a Lady of the early Stuart Court ca. 1605 oil on panel Savannah College of Art & Design Museum, Georgia |
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Daniel Dumonstier Portrait of (perhaps) young Anne of Austria 1615 drawing British Museum |
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Isaac Oliver Seated Woman Asleep before 1617 drawing British Museum |
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Nicolas Lagneau Portrait of an Old Woman ca. 1620 drawing British Museum |
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Anthony van Dyck Portrait of Marchesa Elena Grimaldi-Cattaneo ca. 1622-23 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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Nicholaes Eliasz Pickenoy Portrait of a Lady 1625 oil on panel Galleria Sabauda, Turin |
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Cornelis de Vos Portrait of a Lady ca. 1625-30 oil on canvas Princeton University Art Museum |
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Lucas Vorsterman the Elder after Leonardo da Vinci Head of Leda 1629 (after an original painted in 1507) drawing British Museum |
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workshop of Peter Paul Rubens Portrait of Helena Fourment (2nd wife of Rubens) ca. 1630-32 drawing British Museum |
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Frans Hals Portrait of a Woman 1634 oil on panel Detroit Institute of Arts |
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Samuel Hofmann Portrait of a Woman 1636 oil on panel Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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Ferdinand Bol after Rembrandt Saskia as Flora ca. 1635-40 drawing (after a painting) British Museum |
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Justus Sustermans Portrait of a Woman ca. 1635-45 oil on canvas Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California |
Thou sent'st me late a heart was crowned,
I took it to be thine;
But when I saw it had a wound,
I knew that heart was mine.
A bounty of a strange conceit!
To send mine own to me,
And send it in a worse estate
Than when it came to thee.
– anonymous, 17th century