Portret van Anna Roemers Visscher, RP-P-OB-23.571

A bust-length portrait showing a woman in profile with downcast eyes, wearing a prominent pleated ruff and a lace-trimmed cap. The figure is enclosed in an oval frame set against a hatched background, with a large blank rectangular tablet at the bottom.

Anna Roemers Visscher was a celebrated humanist, poet, and glass engraver who was central to the intellectual life of the Dutch Golden Age. She and her family were deeply involved in the creation of emblem books, such as 'Sinnepoppen', which utilized symbolic imagery to convey moral and philosophical lessons central to the era's educational tradition.