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A Young Woman in a Feathered Beret

Jan de Bisschop
1628-1671

A Young Woman in a Feathered Beret

ca. 1660-65
10 1/16 x 7 5/16 inches (255.59 x 185.74 mm)
Black chalk, and pen and brown ink and wash
2025.88

Gift of Clement C. and Elizabeth Y. Moore, through the Baymeath Art Trust, in honor of Eugene V. Thaw

Notes
Jan de Bisschop was a successful lawyer and accomplished draftsman, known for masterful applications of rich, luminous washes with a brush. His drawings typically copy other artworks, and this one seems to record a lost painting by Frans van Mieris. It is one of a group of drawings that de Bisschop supplied to Hendrik Bary as designs for prints. The related engraving is accompanied by a short couplet that suggests the image is not merely a portrait but a memento mori meant to warn viewers against futile vanities: "Even if Venus does not win the crown for me, how swiftly age will steal my beauty, and fevers and death my very self."
Watermark: (Countermark) Letters "PR".
Classification
Century Drawings
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