Portrait of a Young Woman
Medium
Oil on wood
Dimensions
15 1/2 x 12 1/2 in. (39.4 x 31.8 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Charles B. Curtis Fund, 1939
Accession Number
39.143
Tags
PortraitsWomen
About the Artist
Pieter Jansz. Pourbus|Pieter Jansz. Pourbus · 1523–1584
Dutch painter active in Flanders. He went to Bruges, where in 1543 he became a freeman of the Company of Painters. Married Anna Blondeel 1544 in Bruges. Known as both a cartographer and painter of portraits and religious scenes. He was formerly believed to be a separate person from Pieter Pourbus born 1543, based on flaws in documentation and the vastly different styles of Pieter as cartographer a...