Portrait of a Woman in a Chair [SEP] inception
Portrait of a Woman in a Chair
Portrait of a Woman in a Chair is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted in 1627 and now in the Art Institute of Chicago. It is considered a pendant portrait, but the sitter is unknown and therefore the pendant is not certain.
Painting.
This painting of a young woman with a diadem cap and dark bodice with gold buttons holding a glove or handkerchief, was first documented by W.R. Valentiner in 1923. He mentioned it as being in
SEP. She was elected to the Mexican Academy of letters in 1974 and formally joined the organization in 1975, when she was also selected as Mexico's "Woman of the Year". When she accepted the twelfth chair, Millán was recognized as the first woman admitted to the academy. Continuing to work as manager of the two divisions of SEP until 1976, Millán also prepared an anthology of stories, "Antología de cuentos mexicanos" which was published in three volumes that same year. She then became the first woman appointed