Pendant (artwork)

A painting conceived as part of a pair. Pendant paintings in The Leiden Collection include Willem van Mieris’s Portrait of an Elegant Woman and Portrait of an Elegant Man (1708), and Pendant Portraits of Samuel van Acker and His Wife (?) (1683), and Michiel van Musscher’s Portrait of Pieter Ranst Valckenier (1661–1704) and Eva Suzanna Pellicorne (1670–1732) (1687).