Portrait of a girl in blue,
Johannes Cornelisz. Verspronck,
1641
What made this such a popular image anyway? That it represents a cute child, in her finest clothes?
The girl was portrayed, as was customary at the time, as a small adult lady.
Only her facial expression betrays that she is just playing that role. Unfortunately, we do not know her name and know nothing of her family.
Perhaps, like the portrait painter Verspronck, she lived in Haarlem.
The girl in blue hangs in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
A beauty of a painting with a beautiful girl dressed in subtle shades of blue.
In this digital edit I changed the color, among other things, to give it an old(er) look.
The original work hangs in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam
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