Shown from the chest up on the far side of a narrow ledge, a woman wearing an elaborate headdress and gown faces our left in profile in this vertical portrait painting. Her pale-peach skin is smooth with little shading around the features. The hazel eye we see is heavy-lidded under a thin, arched brow. The woman has a notably high forehead and a sloped nose. Her lips are closed over a knobby chin and fleshy jawline. Her hair is gathered up in a fine gold net under a twisted, ring-like headdress held in place with long gold pins. The fabric of the headdress alternates between twists of…
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Profile Portrait of a Lady

painter Franco-Flemish 15th Century

c. 1410

Medium
oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
painted surface: 52 × 36.6 cm (20 1/2 × 14 7/16 in.) ; overall (panel): 53 × 37.6 cm (20 7/8 × 14 13/16 in.) ; framed: 74.3 × 61.28 × 7.62 cm (29 3/8 × 24 1/4 × 3 in.)
Culture
Franco-Flemish
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-R
Credit line
Andrew W. Mellon Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, 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

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