Keywords: Frans Hals - portrait of a woman with enlarged ruff and cut down from original size.jpg en Head of a woman in a white ruff and diadem cap possible fragment of a larger portrait or a copy from a three-quarter length marriage portrait ca 1640 oil on panel 40 2 cm x 33 cm http //www sothebys com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2008/important-old-master-paintings-including-european-works-of-art-n08404/lot 316 html Frans Hals E W Moes Frans Hals Sa Vie et Son Oeuvre Brussels 1909 p 109 cat no 207; C H de Groot A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century London 1910 vol III p 108 cat no 373; W Bode and M J Binder Frans Hals sein Leben und seine Werke Berlin 1914 vol II p 58 cat no 184 reproduced plate 115b; W R Valentiner Frans Hals Berlin 1923 p 320 cat no 231 right reproduced p 231 as copy of the Portrait of a Woman presumably the wife of Hendrick Swalmius in the Boymans-van Beuningen Museum Rotterdam ; S Slive Frans Hals London 1974 vol 3 p 68 under cat no 127 other versions PD-Art-100 Uploaded with UploadWizard Portrait paintings by Frans Hals Diadem caps |