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Portrait of a Woman
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About this work
Corneille de Lyon worked both for the French court and wealthy merchants. His distinctive northern style stood in contrast to the taste for Italian Renaissance painting and connected closely to portrait miniatures and manuscript painting. Recent conservation treatment has restored the smooth, enamel-like background and the meticulous rendering of detail.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit linePortrait of a Woman, c. 1540. Corneille de Lyon (Netherlandish, 1500/10–1574). Oil on wood; framed: 39 x 26 x 5 cm (15 3/8 x 10 1/4 x 1 15/16 in.); unframed: 16.5 x 14.8 cm (6 1/2 x 5 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Grace Rainey Rogers in memory of her father, William J. Rainey, 1942.48
