Portrait of a Woman Standing (Kassel)

Portrait of a Woman Standing, c. 1618 – 1620, Oil on panel, 106 x 80.3 cm
Artist	Frans Hals
Year	1618 (1618)
Catalogue	Hofstede de Groot, : #374
Medium	Oil on panel
Dimensions	103 cm × 82.5 cm (41 in × 32.5 in)
Location	Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (Kassel), Kassel
Accession	214

Portrait of a Woman Standing (Kassel) is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted in 1618–1620 and now in Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (Kassel). It is considered a pendant portrait to the Portrait of a Man Standing, in the same museum.

Similar to Hals' Portrait of a Woman Standing in Chatsworth House, this woman is wearing a wedding ring on her right forefinger, a figure-eight collar and lace wrist collars over sleeves that match her bodice, and a heavy gold chain draped through a vlieger over a wheel-shaped fardegalijn. Her diadem cap lacks wings however and is more similar to the cap worn by Hals's Catholic sitter Catharina Both-van der Eem and by his brewer Aletta Hannemans. Despite the coat-of-arms, this sitter remains unidentified and her portrait was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1910, who wrote:

"374. PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN STANDING. B. 100. She looks about thirty years of age. Three-quarter-length. She is turned three-quarters left, and looks at the spectator. Her left arm hangs at her side, the hand grasping the seam of her dress ; her right hand rests on the back of a chair. She wears a lace cap, a ruff, a shiny silk dress, a jacket of lacquer-red with yellow spots, a sleeveless cape of black figured taffeta, and lace wristbands. She has a golden girdle and bracelets. In the left upper corner is a coat-of-arms, bearing three swans swimming to the right. Dark-grey background. Painted about 1620. [Pendant to 265.] Canvas on panel, 40 1/2 inches by 32 1/2 inches. In the chief Kassel inventory of 1749, No. 688. In the Picture Gallery, Kassel, 1903 catalogue, No. 214."

Hofstede de Groot identified it as a pendant to "265. PORTRAIT OF A MAN STANDING. B. 99. Three-quarter-length. He seems about forty or forty-five years of age. He is turned three-quarters right, and looks at the spectator. His right hand, with the back upward, rests on his hip ; his left hand holds his tall black hat. He has short fair hair, a moustache and a pointed beard. He is dressed in black satin with a white collar edged with lace, lace ruffles, and an embroidered wristband. At top to the right hangs his coat-of-arms, bearing in the upper field a Greek cross and in the lower three water-lily leaves. Painted about 1620. [Pendant to 374.] Canvas on panel, 40 inches by 30 1/2 inches. In the chief Kassel inventory of 1749, No. 687. In the Kassel Gallery, 1903 catalogue, No. 213."