Portrait of a Woman (Marie Larp)
painting by Frans Hals
Portrait of a Woman (Marie Larp) is an oil-on-canvas portrait painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted ca.1635–1638 and now at the National Gallery in London.
Painting
The painting shows a fashionably dressed woman seated in a chair and holding her bridal stomacher with her left hand. This painting was documented by Ernst Wilhelm Moes in 1909 and Hofstede de Groot in 1910, who wrote:232. MARIA LARP (buried November 15, 1675), wife of Pieter Tjarck. M. 78. Half-length, in a painted oval. She faces three- quarters left and looks at the spectator. Her left hand is at her bosom; the right hand is not shown. She wears a white cap, a ruff, a black dress embroidered with white at the bosom, and lace wristbands. The colour of the face is very life-like.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q17904794. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1635, 1638, 1909 and 1910.
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