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Catharina van Hemessen (1527/28–after 1567), Antwerp, 1548, oil on panel
Also titled Portret van een vrouw
Catharina van Hemessen (Antwerp, ca. –1560)
1548
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 23 cm x width 15.2 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- F.G.S. Baron van Brakell tot den Brakell Bequest, Arnhem
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
About this work
The self-assured Catharina van Hemessen signed and dated this portrait of an unknown woman. In large gilt letters, she inscribed in Latin ‘Catherina de Hemessen pinxit 1548,’ which translates as ‘Catharina van Hemessen painted this in 1548.’ Van Hemessen is the first Southern Netherlandish female painter by whom signed and dated works are known. This portrait is likely one of her earliest pieces.
