Profile Portrait of a Lady

Franco-Flemish, Profile Portrait of a Lady, 52.0 cm × 36.6 cm (20.5 in × 14.4 in). c. 1410. Oil on panel. National Gallery of Art, Washington.^[1]

Profile Portrait of a Lady is oil on panel painting by an unknown Franco-Flemish artist, dated to about 1410. It is housed in the National Gallery of Art, Washington.^{[lower-alpha 1]}

The woman is wearing an early form balzo headdress over her hair, which has been plucked above her forehead to the point at which the balzo rests.

References

Notes

1. Hand & Wolff note that Charles Sterling lists the surviving independent portraits from this period, in addition to Profile Portrait of a Lady, as:^[2][3]
   • John the Good of France in the Louvre, Paris
   • Archduke Rudolf IV of Austria in the Dom-und Diözesanmuseum, Vienna
   • Louis II of Anjou in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
   • Richard II of England in Westminster Abbey, London
   • Wenceslaus, Duke of Brabant and Luxembourg in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid

Sources

1. "Profile Portrait of a Lady". National Gallery of Art.
2. Hand & Wolff p. 95 n. 2
3. Sterling, pp. 289-312

Bibliography

• Hand, John Oliver and Martha Wolff. Early Netherlandish Painting. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, 1986: 90-97, repro. 91.
• Panofsky Erwin. Early Netherlandish Painting: Its Origins and Character. 2 vols. Cambridge, Mass., 1953: 1:82, 171, 392 note 2; 2: pl. 43, fig. 92.
• Sterling, Charles. La peinture de portrait à la cour de Bourgogne au début du XV^e siècle. Critica d'Arte 6, 1959: 289, 299, 304,306, 308, 312, fig 193.
• Virtue and Beauty: Leonardo's Ginevra de' Benci and Renaissance Portraits of Women. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001-2002: no. 1.

Further reading

• Hand, John Oliver. National Gallery of Art: Master Paintings from the Collection. Washington and New York, 2004: 72-73, no. 53, color repro.

External links

• Catalogue entry at the National Gallery of Art