About this artwork
This elegant lady and gentleman are portrayed outside on a terrace with gardens beyond. Their poses, gesture and appearance suggest they may be an engaged or newly wed couple. Both are fashionably dressed. The dog was a traditional symbol of fidelity and the man’s gesture implies his heart is pledged to the young woman by his side.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Pieter NasonDutch (1612 - 1688/90)
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title:Portrait of a Couple
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date created:Possibly 1650s
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materials:Oil on canvas
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measurements:135.00 x 147.30 cm; Framed: 163.50 x 174.80 x 11.00 cm
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credit line:Purchased by the Royal Institution 1840; transferred to the National Gallery of Scotland 1859
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accession number:NG 117
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artwork photographed by:Antonia Reeve
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Pieter Nason
Pieter Nason
Nason was a respected portrait and still-life painter, who spent most of his career in The Hague. His portraits of fashionable patrons are similar in style to the smooth highly polished paintings of his Amsterdam contemporary Bartholomeus van der Helst, whose portraits overtook Rembrandt’s in...
