Portrait of a Woman
by MAES, Nicolaes, Oil on canvas, 112 x 90 cm
It was suggested that the painting reveals the influence of Jacob Jordaens, who was visited by Maes on a trip to Antwerp in the 1660s. However, not only Jordaens, but many other Flemish, and by the 1660s, quite a few Dutch artists painted similar portraits of seated and similarly posed sitters with a glimpse of landscape in the background.