Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Paul van Somer, ca. 1576–1621, Flemish, active in Britain (from 1616)

Title:

An Unknown Young Girl

Date:

ca. 1615

Materials & Techniques:

Oil on panel

Dimensions:

25 3/4 × 20 inches (65.4 × 50.8 cm)

Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Label on verso, lower center: “Pitt & Scott Ltd | London | F. [handwritten] 4002 | #187 | [typed] 3576”; center: "8622"

Credit Line:

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:

Public Domain

Accession Number:

B1973.1.57

Classification:

Paintings

Collection:

Paintings and Sculpture

Subject Terms:

Currently On View:

Not on view

Exhibition History:

Art in Focus: Gazes Returned (Yale Center for British Art, 2012-04-13 - )

Publications:

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 210-211, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)

Gazes returned, the technical examination of early English panel painting , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2012, cover, pp. 9, 15-19, figs. 8-12;cover, V2415 (YCBA

Ian Tyers, The tree-ring analysis of 23 panel paintings from the Yale Center for British Art , New Haven : dendrochronological consultancy report 470, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2011, pp. 15, 16, 17, 26-28, fig. 7, CC78.3 .T94 2011 (YCBA)

Gallery Label:

The sitter wears on her bodice an oval jewel forming the crowned cipher "S," which (being the first letter of the name of Sophie of Mecklenburg, King James I's mother-in-law, the mother of his queen, Anne of Denmark) had strong royal connotations in Jacobean England. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2005

Link:

https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:151