A Young Woman, Gerrit Dou, 1640
Gerrit Dou, portraitGerrit DouDutch, 1613–1675

A Young Woman

1640 · Painting

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Not on view at present

Where is “A Young Woman” now? Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Not on view at present. Checked September 29, 2026.

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Cleveland, United States

It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.

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About the painting

This painting may depict a specific person as in a traditional portrait. The less formal costume and the tight focus on the head, however, may mean that it is a tronie, a popular category of painting among Dutch painters in the 1600s. While painted from living models, tronies represent more general types of people, designed as beautiful images rather than accurate likenesses of people known to their patrons.

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1951.325

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