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Portrait of a Woman
Corneille de Lyon (Netherlandish, 1500/10–1574)
c. 1540
- Medium
- oil on wood
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Framed: 39 x 26 x 5 cm (15 3/8 x 10 1/4 x 1 15/16 in.); Unframed: 16.5 x 14.8 cm (6 1/2 x 5 13/16 in.)
- Culture
- Netherlandish, active France, 16th century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Gift of Grace Rainey Rogers in memory of her father, William J. Rainey
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Corneille de Lyon worked both for the French court and wealthy merchants. His distinctive northern style stood in contrast to the taste for Italian Renaissance painting and connected closely to portrait miniatures and manuscript painting. Recent conservation treatment has restored the smooth, enamel-like background and the meticulous rendering of detail.
