It is considered a pendant to the portrait of Sara's husband Nicolaes Hasselaer.

Sara became engaged to the wealthy widower Nicolaes Hasselaer, who lived on the Keizersgracht, on 14 August 1622.

Similar to Hals' other wedding portraits of women, she is wearing a richly embroidered stomacher.

She wears her hair rolled in front of a winged diadem cap that is edged with lace trim.

BRECHTJE VAN SCHOOTERBOSCH (probably), wife of Dirk Pietersz Hasselaer.

[2]Hofstede de Groot correctly rejected it as a portrait of Nicolaes's first wife, but he went even further and stated that Nicolaes' portrait was actually of his older brother Dirk, thus labelling this one the name of Dirk's wife Brechtje.

In 1974 Seymour Slive listed these as pendants and remarked on Nicolaes' unusual relaxed pose leaning over the back of a chair, and that Sara's headress was similar to that of women in the 1630s, including others by Hals.