The painting is an oil on panel and is considered a pendant portrait to that of her husband, the Haarlem brewer and mayor Nicolaes Woutersz van der Meer.

She sits in a large arm-chair, seen almost in full face, but slightly inclined to the left.

She wears a cap, a black dress with a fur cape, a ruff, and lace wristbands.

In the Haarlem Municipal Museum, bequeathed by Fabricius van Leyenburg in 1883; 1907 catalogue, No.

[1]In 1974 Seymour Slive listed this painting as Hals' first example of a portrait at three-quarter length of a woman sitting in a chair.