SLINGELAND, Pieter Cornelisz. van
(b. 1640, Leiden, d. 1691, Leiden)

Portrait of a Lady Holding a Rose

1670s
Oil on panel, 20 x 17 cm
Private collection

This small panel was probably made in the 1670s, when Slingeland executed most of his delicate, genre-like portraits. It depicts in great detail a young woman standing in half-length and in three-quarter profile, with her head turned to the left, facing the viewer. In her right hand the lady holds a single pink rosebud; her left arm rests gracefully on a stone balustrade.

The painting is a betrothal or marriage portrait and in 1773 had a pendant, a portrait of a man with a statue of Mercury.