In his 1642 address to the painter’s guild in leiden, the artist philips angel said that the greatest painters could properly distinguish among a range of fabrics. In order to create the dazzling costume worn by this graceful woman, terborch would have set up a mannequin with satin drapery so that he could closely observe and record every gradation of reflected light. Terborch built up the shimmering fabric with a network of fine flicks and sweeps of the brush, occasionally adding and wiping away tiny bits of paint to make the dress shine. Object Type: painting. Genre: portrait. Date: 1650. Place of creation: Netherlands, 17th century. Dimensions: Framed: 87.5 x 77 x 7 cm (34 7/16 x 30 5/16 x 2 3/4 in.); Unframed: 63.3 x 52.7 cm (24 15/16 x 20 3/4 in.). Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: Cleveland Museum of Art. Clevelandart 1944.93
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