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Portrait of a Lady (or Portrait of a Woman) is a small oil-on-oak panel painting executed around 1460 by the Netherlandish painter Rogier van der Weyden. The composition is built from the geometric shapes that form the lines of the woman's veil , neckline, face, and arms, and by the fall of the light that illuminates her face and headdress.
Portrait of a Lady, c. 1460. National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. No single work can be attributed with certainty to van der Weyden on 15th-century documentary evidence alone. However, Lorne Campbell has stated that three well-authenticated paintings are known, but each has been doubted or underestimated. [17]
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On the reverse is a 17th-century (or possibly earlier) inscription "Ruggero di Bruselle/1460" (i.e. "Roger of Brussels 1460"), which suggests it was already connected with van der Weyden from an early date. The workmanship is of top quality, the modelling subtly worked to suggest a three-dimensional sculptural effect.
Portrait of a Young Woman (or Lady Wearing a Gauze Headdress) is a painting completed between 1435–1440 by the Netherlandish artist Rogier van der Weyden.
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Portrait of a Lady (van der Weyden) Portrait of a Man (Antonello da Messina, Pavia) Portrait of a Man (Mantegna) Portrait of a Man in a Red Hat; Portrait of a Young Girl (Christus) Portrait of Antoine, 'Grand Bâtard' of Burgundy; Portrait of Carlo de' Medici; Profile of a Man (Mantegna) Profile Portrait of a Young Lady
Portrait of a Woman, 1641, in the Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg; Portrait of a Woman (van der Weyden), 1435–1440, in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin; Portrait of a Lady (van der Weyden), also called Portrait of a Woman, c.1460, in the National Gallery of Art, Washington