Portret van Maria Rey (1630/31-1703), echtgenote van Roelof Meulenaer

This 1650 portrait of Maria Rey, wife of Roelof Meulenaer, represents the prosperous Amsterdam merchant class that formed the core of Bol's portrait clientele in mid-century. The paired portraits of Meulenaer and his wife—each recorded in separate canvases—follow the standard Dutch convention for bourgeois marriage portraits, emphasizing the couple's complementary social status and shared prosperity. Maria's clothing, jewelry, and bearing signal both her husband's commercial success and her own management of the domestic sphere that sustained Amsterdam's commercial culture. Bol renders her with the refined elegance increasingly characteristic of his post-Rembrandt style.

The portrait renders the sitter with the combination of dignified bearing and careful costume rendering that characterized Bol's approach to bourgeois female portraiture in mid-century Amsterdam.