Three Young Girls
British artist, Three Young Girls, early 1600s. Oil paint on wood panel; 32 1/2 × 44 3/8 in. (82.6 × 112.7 cm). Denver Art Museum: Gift of the Berger Collection Educational Trust, 2021.30
The three sisters portrayed here are dressed in matching outfits in the newly relaxed style of the early 1600s—high waist, low neckline, and unstructured sleeves. Their scarlet dresses are decorated with yellow lace, a short-lived accessory popular in the 1610s. The two older girls hold ripe fruit, symbolic of their future roles as wives and mothers, while the youngest girl holds a doll of an adult woman dressed in black, possibly signaling that their mother has died.
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