Portrait of a girl in blue, Johannes Cornelisz. Verspronck, 1641.
Original is oil on canvas, 66.5 x 82cm.
What made this such a popular effigy anyway? That it depicts a cute child, in her finest clothes? The girl was portrayed, as was common at the time, as a small adult lady. Only her facial expression betrays that she is just playing that role. Unfortunately, we do not know her name or anything about her family. Perhaps, like the portrait painter Verspronck, she lived in Haarlem.
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