From the middle of his career is the small, but superbly painted “Portrait of a Woman in Profile” (1636), sold at Sotheby's, New York in 2004 for $1,500,000. Again note how finely the fur and hair are rendered and how contempory the woman appears. [https://traveltoeat.com/salomon-de-bray-louvre/] This oval oil on panel measures 10 ½ by 8 inches and is dated 1636. The catalogue entry for this lot provides the following commentary: "Salomon De Bray and his son Jan were the leading history painters in Haarlem in the mid-17th Century, and were foremost among the Dutch classicist painters. Salomon painted history pieces of subjects throughout his career, and his style evolved towards the more formal, classical manner of his paintings from the later 1640s and 50s, but his earlier work is less easy to categorize. Depicting heads in profile, as he has done here, was a favored trait of the classicist paintings, who certainly knew that by following a form that originated with Roman coinage, they were inviting comparisons with the Antique. On the other hand, the vigorous, painterly brushwork of this exquisite little picture has nothing to do with such a tradition, and is much more modern. The way that De Bray painted it reveals a clear awareness of Rembrandt's work of the first half of the 1630s, such as his profile portrait of Saskia van Uylenburgh in Kassel, Gemäldegalerie, done a year or two earlier, or the profile portrait of Amalia van Solms of 1632, in Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André. The strong, dramatic lighting, the handling of light on the sitter's face and the way it illuminates her blonde curls is strongly reminiscent of Rembrandt's work in the mid-1630s. It also recalls the work of Jan Lievens, and the type of fanciful depiction of this young woman with a fur collar not a formal portrait, but not an invention either has the character of a trony. In few if any other works does De Bray achieve such a purity of vision and unhesitancy of execution." [http://www.thecityreview.com/w04som.html]