It is considered a pendant to the portrait of Catharina's husband Tieleman Roosterman.

[1] She was engaged to Tieleman on 27 November 1631, the same year that a property investment in the Beemster was made over from Jan's name to his widow Maria.

The portrait was inscribed with the year 1634 and the bride's age being 22, but since she was 22 when she married in 1631 it is probably a bit earlier.

Similar to Hals' other wedding portraits of standing women, she is holding the back of a chair with her right hand.

Her diadem cap is edged with lace in the manner of Hals' portrait of Sara Wolphaerts van Diemen.

She is holding a wedding glove that presumably matches the one in her husband's portrait.

[3]Hofstede de Groot did not identify it as a pendant of Tieleman's portrait, but he wrote very little about it: "354.