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Portrait of a Woman
Also titled Portret van een vrouw
Carlo Portelli (ca. –1574)
1540 - 1565
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 15 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
The woman’s identity is unknown, but her velvet gown and jewellery bespeak her wealth. The long neck and slender fingers are typical features of Italian portraiture from this period. In the 16th century, portraits of this size were usually rectangular. The painting was probably cut into an oval shape in the 17th or 18th century.
