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
Rights
Public Domain
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...