Portrait of a Woman Standing (Kassel) [SEP] collection
Portrait of a Woman Standing (Kassel)
Portrait of a Woman Standing (Kassel) is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted in 1618–1620 and now in Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (Kassel). It is considered a pendant portrait to the "Portrait of a Man Standing", in the same museum.
Painting.
Similar to Hals' "Portrait of a Woman Standing" in Chatsworth House, this woman is wearing a wedding ring on her right forefinger, a figure-eight collar and
is a richly embroidered Dutch wedding stomacher, and a heavy gold chain draped through a vlieger, rests on a wheel-shaped fardegalijn. Her diadem cap lacks wings and is more similar to the cap worn by Hals's unknown sitter "Portrait of a Woman Standing" (Kassel) and by his brewer Aletta Hannemans. Her portrait was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1910, who wrote:
"155. CATHARINA BOTH VAN DER EEM, wife of Paulus Beresteyn. B. 10 ; M. 16. Three-quarter-