A Young Woman and a Cavalier

Artist
Cornelis Bisschop
Year
early 1660s
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
38 1/2 x 34 3/4 in. (97.8 x 88.3 cm)

A young woman and a cavalier converse in a Dutch interior, the officer in a broad hat leaning toward her. Cornelis Bisschop, a Dordrecht master, fills the scene with the quiet social elegance typical of mid-century Dutch genre painting.