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(Archive) Portret van een onbekende vrouw

Portrait of an unknown woman

This project was part of DDW 2020
Schilder: Herman Verelst — © ©Rijksstudio

‘Portrait of an unknown woman’ shows an archive of in museums exhibited female portraits who are classified as ‘Jane Doe’.

‘Portrait of an unknown woman’: a common title in museums when they want to flaunt with a painting featuring a mysterious female. The depicted women in the portraits are often studies of painters, muses, forbidden or unknown mistresses. When these paintin