COSTER, Adam de
(b. ca. 1586, Mechelen, d. 1643, Antwerpen)

Young Woman Holding a Distaff (detail)

c. 1630
Oil on canvas
Private collection

The rich crimson colour found in her robe and striped headdress is also subtly detectable in her supple lips, the apple of her cheeks, and the sheen of the stem of the candlestick.




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