1641 Sophie of the Palatinate, electress of Hanover, in her younger days by Gerrit van Honthorst (Detroit Institute of Arts - Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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From visit-hannover.com-en-Press-Press-Information-sorted-by-topic-The-History-of-Hannover; spots and numerous cracks throughout the image fixed with Photoshop.

1641 Sophie of the Palatinate, electress of Hanover, in her younger days by Gerrit van Honthorst (Detroit Institute of Arts - Detroit, Michigan, USA) From visit-hannover.com-en-Press-Press-Information-sorted-by-topic-The-History-of-Hannover

Young Sophie wears an eccentric dress with her chemise providing a partlet section and under-sleeves. She wears a spectacular headdress.

Leimomi Oakes had this about the portrait in her blog, the Dreamstress, "Sophia, aged between 10 and 20 (it was apparently painted at age 11 - gogm), is probably wearing allegorical or fancy dress in this portrait.  Fancy dress or not, the garment shows the mark of its time, in the transition between the higher-waisted 1630s styles, and the longer torso of the 1660s, and the full, dropped sleeves.  Sophia’s status (or claim to it, as this portrait was probably done between the death of her father and her brother’s restoration as the Elector of the Palatinate) and wealth is obvious in the pearl trim edging her sleeves and waist, the pearls twined through her headdress, the massive pearl and ruby drops at forehead, breast and waist, the further pearls round her neck and jewels round her bodice, and the fineness of her shift."

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