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Hand-colored woodcut of a seated woman in a feathered hat spinning yarn, with a candlestick and brick wall at right and a dog's head near her lap.

Spinning Woman

A woman in a plumed, wide-brimmed hat and pink-and-white dress sits and spins yarn with a spindle, her gaze lowered to her work. A candlestick rises at right beside a brick wall, and a dog's head rests near her lap in this hand-colored woodcut with delicate line shading.

Artist
attributed to Lucas van Leyden
Date
1500-1599
Medium
Source
Rijksmuseum
Size
2664 × 4000 px
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Public domain · Rijksmuseum marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1599.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Rijksmuseum, image license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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