An Old Woman ('The Ugly Duchess')
circa 1513
- Classification
- Painting
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit line
- National Gallery, London
- Rights
- Public domain, 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
About this work
It was probably intended to satirise old people who behave as if they are still young. The figure was more probably a fictional, folkloric character from the world of carnival.[1]
Pendant of Portrait of an old man, by Quinten Matsys
