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Portrait of a Woman

ca. 1510–15
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 612

Strigel belonged to a successful family of artists in the South German town of Memmingen. In the first two decades of the sixteenth century, he produced a number of portraits depicting elegantly dressed women positioned before decorative textile hangings and open windows with landscape views. The sitter in this portrait has not been identified, but her elaborate costume, with its imported fabrics and ostentatious jewelry, places her among the elite echelons of society.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Portrait of a Woman
  • Artist: Bernhard Strigel (German, Memmingen 1460–1528 Memmingen)
  • Date: ca. 1510–15
  • Medium: Oil on linden
  • Dimensions: 15 1/8 x 10 1/2 in. (38.4 x 26.7 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Purchase, 1871
  • Object Number: 71.34
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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Portrait of a Woman, after Bernhard Strigel, Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart French, Etching on chine collé
Portrait of a Woman, after Bernhard Strigel
Multiple artists/makers
1871
Portrait of a Woman, after Bernhard Strigel, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum New York", Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart French, Etching; fourth state of four (Gonse)
Portrait of a Woman, after Bernhard Strigel, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum New York"
Multiple artists/makers
1871
Portrait of a Woman, after Bernhard Strigel
Multiple artists/makers
1871
Margarethe Vöhlin (recto); Vöhlin Coat of Arms (versos), Bernhard Strigel German, Oil on linden panel, poplar frame, German
Returned to lender
Margarethe Vöhlin (recto); Vöhlin Coat of Arms (versos)
Bernhard Strigel
1527
Hans Roth (recto); Roth Coat of Arms (verso), Bernhard Strigel German, Oil on linden panel, poplar frame, German
Returned to lender
Hans Roth (recto); Roth Coat of Arms (verso)
Bernhard Strigel
1527

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