A Young Woman in a Landscape by Unknown Artist - 1636 - 66 x 50.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art A Young Woman in a Landscape by Unknown Artist - 1636 - 66 x 50.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art

A Young Woman in a Landscape

oil on wood • 66 x 50.5 cm
  • Unknown Artist Unknown Artist 1636

Full-length portraits of less than royal sitters were exceptional in the Netherlands until Rubens and Van Dyck, and in Amsterdam Thomas de Keyser and Rembrandt, made them fashionable. This unassuming portrait of a woman in a quaintly underscaled landscape achieves a distinctive charm and intimacy.