Word: fichu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...period, it was painted about 1648, when Hals was nearly 70 and had modified his earlier bravura style in favor of a deeper maturity and more finely modeled values. Hals still gave the wealthy young housewife's finery its due, from dangling earrings to her triangular, diaphanous white fichu primly pinned with a golden ribbon bow. But in the modeling of the forehead, he has also suggested the very qualities which her husband (whose supposed portrait hangs in Kansas City's Nelson Gallery) no doubt most prized: not proud and haughty beauty but industry neatness and the solid...