Unequal Lovers
Artist/Maker
Pieter de Grebber
(The Netherlands, ca. 1600-ca. 1653)
Dateca. 1650
Mediumoil on canvas
DimensionsSight: 57 3/4 x 42 in. (146.7 x 106.7 cm)
Framed: 57 3/4 x 42 in. (146.7 x 106.7 cm)
Framed: 57 3/4 x 42 in. (146.7 x 106.7 cm)
ClassificationsVisual Works
Credit LineGift of Colonel C. Michael Paul
Terms
Object number68.129.003
On View
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Visual Description
In this vertical, seventeenth-century oil painting, a pallid young man with a wooden chest under one arm is grabbed from behind by an older woman in a black cloak and headcover. The young man stands at our left, chewing his downturned lower lip, wide eyes looking directly at us. He wears a fuzzy brown hat, a blue satin coat, several leather pouches, and a sword. Behind him, on our right, is the older woman, flush patches on her light-skinned cheeks. With her hands buried in the folds of his clothing, she pulls him back, biting the patterned hem of his coat.
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