Three Young Girls

 In a dark room  in the Denver Art Museum, three sisters stand, looking straight ahead. They are mesmerizing in their identical dresses. The style of the lace, with stand up collars and cuffs folding back over the sleeve are clues indicating that they posed for this portrait sometime in the early 1600s. Historians have concluded that about 1610 is a more accurate date because the lace is yellow, a short-lived fashion that died out quickly. Who are these girls? We know they are from a wealthy family but neither their names nor the name of the artist is documented. Did they all grow up and have children of their own? Four hundred years later, they look out but do not tell.