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| Keywords: Workshop of Gerrit van Honthorst - Portrait of a Lady of the Court as a Shepherdess - Walters 372457.jpg The romantic fantasy of shepherds and shepherdesses living in the wilds of Arcadia in Greece was a favored theme in ancient poetry that was revived in Renaissance Italy and around 1600 in the Netherlands In the 1620s Honthorst and Cornelis van Poelenburch created a fashion in elite circles for portraying young people in this way The sitter here may be Catherina Elizabeth von Hanau 1607-47 who married in 1628 In any case she is a noblewoman from the court in The Hague; an engraving of this portrait is among those of the highest aristocracy reproduced in a publication of 1640 The True Portraits of Some of the Greatest Ladies of Christendom Disguised as Shepherdesses Honthorst flourished in Rome and Utrecht as a painter of tavern and religious scenes Turning to portraiture he enjoyed the patronage of the court with assistants preparing portraits for him to touch up ca 1628 Baroque Oil on canvas cm 75 4 62 accession number 37 2457 21661 Earls of Craven Combe Abbey 1866 Catalog no 341 Cornelia Countess of Craven Cornelia Countess of Craven Sale Sotheby and Co London November 27 1968 no 61 Walters Art Museum 1968 by purchase Museum purchase with funds provided by the S A P Fund 1968 World of Wonder The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1971-1972 place of origin The Hague Netherlands Walters Art Museum license 2D Baroque paintings in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
