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| Keywords: people indoor The identity of the sitter has been recently solved. According to the National Gallery, "The child represented, who seems to be about nine or 10 years old, must be of the highest rank. Her clothes, sewn with hundreds of pearls, are very much more splendid than those of the princesses of France drawn or painted by Jean Clouet in the 1520s;28 but Eleonora of Austria, Queen of France, is attired with comparable magnificence in portraits of around 1530.29 The only young girls who, in the Low Countries in about 1530, might have appeared so richly dressed were the daughters of King Christian of Denmark, Dorothea and Christina. They resided at the courts of Margaret of Austria and Mary of Hungary; both Margaret and Charles V gave them enormous quantities of jewellery including huge numbers of pearls." The identity of the sitter has been recently solved. According to the National Gallery, "The child represented, who seems to be about nine or 10 years old, must be of the highest rank. Her clothes, sewn with hundreds of pearls, are very much more splendid than those of the princesses of France drawn or painted by Jean Clouet in the 1520s;28 but Eleonora of Austria, Queen of France, is attired with comparable magnificence in portraits of around 1530.29 The only young girls who, in the Low Countries in about 1530, might have appeared so richly dressed were the daughters of King Christian of Denmark, Dorothea and Christina. They resided at the courts of Margaret of Austria and Mary of Hungary; both Margaret and Charles V gave them enormous quantities of jewellery including huge numbers of pearls." | ||||
