Portrait of a 40-year-old woman

Jacob Gerritsz. Cuyp was a Dutch Golden Age painter specializing in portraiture and religious subjects during the early seventeenth century. Active in the Dutch Republic from the 1620s onward, he worked primarily in oil on canvas, developing a style marked by careful attention to fabric textures and subdued palette. His portrait practice reflects the conventions of Dutch civic and merchant culture, while his religious commissions demonstrate command of narrative composition and figural arrangement.