(details from "Bernardina Margriet van Raesfelt or Jacoba Maria van Wassenaer") Jan Havickszoon Steen (c.1626-1679) Mauritshuis Museum , The Hague , Netherlans

If the smallness of this Lady is not a matter of perspective, she is likely to be a "midget", a term that implies proportional reduction of body size. Another term conveying more complex but similar ideas is "pygmy", but in general parlance, pygmy conjures ideas of a group or "race" of mythological people or those who inhabit areas of tropical Africa and Pacific Ocean islands.