# An Old Woman ('The Ugly Duchess')

- By: Quinten Metsys
- Date: circa 1513
- Classification: Painting
- Credit line: National Gallery, London
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Quentin_Matsys_-_A_Grotesque_old_woman.jpg)
- Rights: Public domain
- Picture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Quentin_Matsys_-_A_Grotesque_old_woman.jpg/1920px-Quentin_Matsys_-_A_Grotesque_old_woman.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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