Shown from the waist up, a light-skinned woman sits angled slightly to our right in this vertical portrait painting. The woman has blue eyes, faint brows, and a sloping nose ending in a small bulb. Her upper lip is thin and her lower lip full over a slight double chin. Her blond hair is pulled back under a gold, cap-like headdress and a black, wide-brimmed hat with a shallow crown. She wears a high-necked white, black, and gold dress with intricate detailing, a gold chain necklace that falls to her waist, and a black belt with a gold clasp and medallions. She wears two gold rings set with…
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Margarethe Vöhlin [obverse]

Bernhard Strigel (German, 1460/1461 - 1528)

1527

Medium
oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall (visible surface, greatest height): 43 × 30 cm (16 15/16 × 11 13/16 in.) ; framed: 50.01 × 37.62 × 5.08 cm (19 11/16 × 14 13/16 × 2 in.)
Culture
German
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-R
Credit line
Ralph and Mary Booth Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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