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An eighteenth-century label stuck on the back of this painting names the sitter as Marie Larp, and there was a Maria Larp living in Haarlem around the time the portrait was made. She married Pieter Tjarck in 1634, whom Hals also seems to have painted in a portrait now in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. That portrait (identified by an old label on the back) is set in a similar frame – the two paintings seem like a pair of marriage portraits, although there are very slight differences in the painted frames. The woman’s pose is formal. She sits upright and stiff; her hand gesture is rather contrived, pointing towards the rich embroidery on her gown. The vertical lines of the bright yellow buttons and the chair back add to the sense of a rather rigid attitude.