Brooklyn Museum: American Art: Lady with an Arrow

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Lady with an Arrow

This figure a woman holding an arrow is of a picture type known as an allegory, or symbolic figure. The arrow refers to the fortunes of love. It was more common to find a variety of picture types in Dutch colonial homes in New York and the Hudson Valley than in other colonial households. This wide-ranging taste was inspired by Dutch cultural traditions, which for two centuries had prized the production and display of landscapes, still lifes, and allegories, as well as portraiture.

Medium: Oil on wood panel
Dates: ca. 1715
Dimensions: 26 3/8 x 21 1/16 in. (67 x 53.5 cm)
Collections: American Art
Museum Location: This item is on view in American Identities: A New Look, American Landscape/Colony to Nation, 5th Floor
Accession Number: 64.89.1
Credit Line: Purchased with funds given by anonymous donors and the Dick S. Ramsay Fund
Image: Overall, 64.89.1_bw.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph

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