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Fine Portrait of a Woman

A woman gracefully sits with her head slightly turned as to capture the light, looks at the viewer. Her hair, perfectly styled is adorned with a diamond flower broach. Her dress is cut exposing her neck and the top of her breasts are decoriously covered by the lace fringe of her dress. The dress is of a dark brown silk with a cape of burgundy velvet lined with hunter green gracefully frames her body. The contrast of the plain dark background with the earth tones of the dress and cape are used to set off the luminous skin tones of the sitter. The artist has illuminated his subject in such a way as to make a modern stage production jealous. Here you have a woman and no ordinary woman, except for the hair adornment and the circular broach at the top of her dress there is no jewelry to distract or that can compete with the sitter. Majestic just as she is this is a woman from and associated with the powerful families of her day.