Who painted Old Woman Cooking Eggs and portraits of theIInfanta in the 17th century?
Old Woman Frying Eggs actually depicted with some suggesting not frying but poaching, leading to an alternative title of the painting, Old Woman Cooking Eggs or Old Woman Poaching Eggs. "Old Woman Frying Eggs" is considered to be one of the strongest of Velázquez's early works. Like others, it shows the influence of chiaroscuro, with a strong light source coming in from the left illuminating the woman, her utensils and the poaching eggs, while throwing the background and the boy standing to her right into deep shadow. Here the chiaroscuro is very intense, so much so that it would be impossible to see the
Portrait of an Old Woman with Folded Hands Portrait of an Old Woman with Folded Hands Portrait of an Old Woman is a c. 1640 portrait painting painted in the style of Jacob Adriaensz. Backer. It shows an old woman with folded hands. It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Several portraits of older people of 17th-century Amsterdam have survived, and sometimes these were pendants and sometimes they were individual portraits. This painting was attributed to Rembrandt for more than a century, but the name of the sitter is unknown. During the course of the 20th-century this painting was attributed to Jacob Adriaensz. Backer,