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Portrait of a Woman

Portrait of a Woman

c. 1490–95
(German)
Germany, 15th century
oil on wood
Framed: 44 x 34.5 x 5.5 cm (17 5/16 x 13 9/16 x 2 3/16 in.); Unframed: 30.3 x 21.3 cm (11 15/16 x 8 3/8 in.)
Bequest of Jane Taft Ingalls 1962.259
Location: 111 German and Austrian Gothic

Description

This portrait represents a woman in her later middle years holding a handsome rosary made of coral with gold medals. Her identity remains unknown, but the richness and elegance of her black woolen gown with fur-trimmed cuffs and her coif of white sheer linen attests to her comfortable social standing. The prominence of her rosary is perhaps meant to suggest her personal devotion. The panel has been attributed to the anonymous Master of the Holy Kinship the Younger, a painter in Cologne (Germany) with a flourishing workshop in the years around 1500.
  • Count Bissaccio, Chartres
    A. Berg, Portland, Oregon
    1927
    (Kleinberger, New York, NY)
    -1962
    Estate of Jane Taft Ingalls, Cleveland, OH, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1962-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Sperling, Emil M. Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of French Primitives and Objects of Art: In Aid of the French Hospital in New York. New York: Kleinberger Galleries, 1927. no. 36
    Tatlock, R.R. "Shorter Notices: An American Exhibition of French Primitives, The National Gallery", Burlington Magazine LI (1927). p. 195, pl. 1,B
    Goldblatt, Maurice H. "Jean Perreal Thirty Portraits Identified," The Connoisseur Vol. 123 (March 1949). p. 9, no. IX, p. 7
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 73 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 73 archive.org
    Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 1. European Paintings before 1500. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974. Reproduced: fig. 57 & 57a, p. 160 - 161
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 83 archive.org
    Scillia, Diane G. "Portrait of a Woman, Attributed to the Master of the Holy Kinship the Younger." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 79, no. 8 (1992): 278-87. Reproduced: cover, p. 278, 285; Mentioned: p. 278-87 www.jstor.org
  • Portraiture: The Image of the Individual. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 22, 1983-January 22, 1984).
    Year in Review - 1962. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24-November 25, 1962).
    French Primitives and Objects of Art, E. Kleinberger Inc., New York, NY (1927).
  • {{cite web|title=Portrait of a Woman|url=false|author=Master of the Holy Kinship|year=c. 1490–95|access-date=27 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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