Portrait of a Woman with a Dog (c. 1635): Art, History and Details

Portrait of a Woman with a Dog (c. 1635) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Hendrik Gerritsz. Pot (Dutch, c. 1585–1657).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

The unidentified sitter wears rich black fabric and a brown fur stole, a sheer white linen cap covers her head, an elaborate starched ruff rings her neck, her sleeves finish in punto in aria lace, and a prominent gold ring with a jewel appears on her right hand. The composition, weighted heavily to the right, implies a pendant portrait, yet to identified, probably depicting her husband.

Object facts

• Title: Portrait of a Woman with a Dog
• Date: c. 1635
• Creator attribution: Hendrik Gerritsz. Pot (Dutch, c. 1585–1657)
• Culture: Netherlands
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on wood
• Dimensions: Framed: 77 x 67 x 7 cm (30 5/16 x 26 3/8 x 2 3/4 in.); Unframed: 41.8 x 32 cm (16 7/16 x 12 5/8 in.)
• Collection: P - Netherlandish-Dutch
• Department: European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 2011.47

A detail from the museum

The wooden box on the floor would have held a dish of glowing coals: an early space heater!

Collection credit

Bequest of Dr. Paul J. Vignos Jr.

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.