Representing Women: Gender and Portraiture in 17th-Century Europe

This digital exhibition is curated by Maggie Bell, Assistant Curator.

Copyright for this digital exhibition is held by the Norton Simon Museum. All rights reserved.

Selected sources:

Adams, Ann Jensen. Public Faces and Private Identities in Seventeenth-Century Holland: Portraiture and the Production of Community. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Chiarini, Marco, and Claudio Pizzorusso, eds. Sustermans: Sessant’anni alla corte dei Medici. Florence: Centro Di, 1983.

Dickey, Stephanie S. “Rembrandt and Saskia: Art, Commerce and the Poetics of Portraiture.” In Rethinking Rembrandt, edited by Alan Chong and Michael Zell, 17–47. Zwolle: Waanders, 2002.

Griffey, Erin. On Display: Henrietta Maria and the Materials of Magnificence at the Stuart Court. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015.

Modesti, Adelina. Women’s Patronage and Gendered Cultural Networks in Early Modern Europe: Vittoria della Rovere, Grand Duchess of Tuscany. New York: Routledge, 2019.

Moran, Sarah Joan, and Amanda Cathryn Pipkin, eds. Women and Gender in the Early Modern Low Countries, 1500–1750. Leiden: Brill, 2019. 

Pearson, Andrea, ed. Women and Portraits in Early Modern Europe: Gender, Agency, Identity. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World, edited by Allyson M. Poska and Abby Zanger. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008.

Weststeijn, Thijs. “The Gender of Colors in Dutch Art Theory.” Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek (NKJ) / Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art 62 (2012): 176–201.

Williams, Julia Lloyd. Rembrandt’s Women. Edinburgh: Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland, 2001.

De Winkel, Marieke. “Ambition and Apparel.” In Class Distinctions: Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer, edited by Ronni Baer, 55–73. Boston: MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, 2015.

Zanger, Abby. “Making Sweat: Sex and the Gender of National Reproduction in the Marriage of Louis XIII.” Yale French Studies, no. 86 (1994): 187–205.