Art, literature & history
A Portrait of a Woman
1650
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Black and red chalk on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 16.4 × 12.8 cm (6 1/2 × 5 1/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2015.209
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jan de Bray. A Portrait of a Woman. Art Institute of Chicago. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
A Portrait of a Woman — Jan de Bray. 1650.
Medium: Black and red chalk on ivory laid paper. Dimensions: 16.4 × 12.8 cm (6 1/2 × 5 1/16 in.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Jan de Bray used finely pointed red and black chalk in alternation to describe the facial features of middle-aged residents of the city of Haarlem. He also captured the distinctive features of their clothing, such as buttons, pleats, seams, and the stiffly pressed lace of their elaborate collars.
Description: © Art Institute of Chicago, original record, CC BY 4.0. HTML formatting removed; wording retained. Other artwork metadata: CC0.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.