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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 4336710, member: 2844&quot;]I agree, the man has payots, so he could belong to some kind of Haredic Judaism. The woman is most likely his (disgruntled<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie66" alt=":nailbiting:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />) wife, head covered in a non-specific old style headdress.</p><p>Definitely not a Dutch costume. We hardly have any Haredim anyway, but &#039;regular&#039; Orthodox, and Sephardim. The closest Haredim/Hasidim communities are in Antwerp and London.</p><p><br /></p><p>That generic woman&#039;s headdress was worn in parts of Flanders.</p><p>I don&#039;t know if the Hasidic women of Antwerp ever wore anything like it, but the somewhat Expressionist style of the painting was very popular in the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium in the early 20th century.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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