Portrait of a Woman, after Bernhard Strigel
Medium
Etching on chine collé
Dimensions
Sheet: 19 3/8 × 13 3/4 in. (49.3 × 35 cm) Plate: 7 7/8 × 6 in. (20 × 15.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1912
Accession Number
12.191.25
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
Art Historical Context
This 1871 etching, created after a portrait by the German Renaissance painter Bernhard Strigel, captures the refined elegance of a woman in period attire. Strigel, active in the sixteenth century, was known for his precise and dignified likenesses of European nobility and merchants. The print, executed on delicate chine collé—a technique that transfers the image onto fine Chinese paper before mounting it on a sturdier sheet—preserves the subtle modeling and expressive details of the original painting while making it accessible to a wider audience. The collaborative effort behind the work refl...
About the Artist
François Liénard|P. & D. Colnaghi & Co.|Bernhard Strigel|Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart (French|French) · 1813 |1860 –1894 |1890
French, Paris 1813–1894 Paris|