Catherine Howard, Lady d’Aubigny

Anthonis van Dyck, vers 1638

A woman with a pale, peachy skin stands wearing a voluminous rose-pink, silk dress and holding a wreath of pink and white roses and greenery in this vertical portrait painting. Shown from the hips up, her body faces our right in profile, and she turns to look at us from the corners of her dark gray eyes. Her light brown hair is pulled up but curls frame her oval face and pointed chin, and falls in ringlets to the base of her neck. She has gently curved eyebrows, a straight nose, and her small pink lips are closed. There may be some red flowers in her hair, but these are lost in the nearly black background. She wears a short necklace made of large, round pearls and large, teardrop pearl earrings hang from her lobes. Her long pink dress is cut low across her bust and wraps around her shoulders and across her back. A pearl adornment is affixed to her dress at the shoulder we can see. The sleeve of her right arm, closer to us, billows to her forearm, which ends with a wide, white, ruffled cuff. She holds the rose wreath with her right hand up at chest height. A sash of stiff, crinkled, tan, sheer fabric loosely wraps around her chest and back. The inscription “LADY AVBIGNY” is painted in tan lettering against the dark brown background at the woman’s waist level on our right.
Artiste
Anthonis van Dyck
Datation
vers 1638
Catégorie
Peinture
Technique
Huile sur toile
Dimensions
106,7 × 85,4 cm
Collection
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Licence
Domaine public, CC0

Description de l’image

A woman with a pale, peachy skin stands wearing a voluminous rose-pink, silk dress and holding a wreath of pink and white roses and greenery in this vertical portrait painting. Shown from the hips up, her body faces our right in profile, and she turns to look at us from the corners of her dark gray eyes. Her light brown hair is pulled up but curls frame her oval face and pointed chin, and falls in ringlets to the base of her neck. She has gently curved eyebrows, a straight nose, and her small pink lips are closed. There may be some red flowers in her hair, but these are lost in the nearly black background. She wears a short necklace made of large, round pearls and large, teardrop pearl earrings hang from her lobes. Her long pink dress is cut low across her bust and wraps around her shoulders and across her back. A pearl adornment is affixed to her dress at the shoulder we can see. The sleeve of her right arm, closer to us, billows to her forearm, which ends with a wide, white, ruffled cuff. She holds the rose wreath with her right hand up at chest height. A sash of stiff, crinkled, tan, sheer fabric loosely wraps around her chest and back. The inscription “LADY AVBIGNY” is painted in tan lettering against the dark brown background at the woman’s waist level on our right.

Anthonis van Dyck