Artwork Title: Portrait of a Woman with a Winged Bonnet (or Lady Wearing a Gauze Headdress)

Portrait of a Woman with a Winged Bonnet (or Lady Wearing a Gauze Headdress)

Rogier Van Der Weyden

The sitter in this small work wears a wide, white hennin over a brown dress, which features a black-lined, v-shaped neckline. As is usual of van der Weyden's female portraits, her hands are clasped tightly in prayer, while her expression is generally humble. Unusually for a van der Weyden', she does not bow her head or gaze into the middle distance. Instead she looks directly at the viewer, creating an intimate relationship between sitter, viewer and artist, which art historian and research curator Lorne Campbell describes as "appealing and vibrant". ...The sitter has unusually bright, large and attractive blue eyes; their rendering may be considered outside of contemporary representation in that the artist did not reduce the size of the sitter's left eye to reflect the scale of her turn of head to the viewer's left.... The portrait is similar to other female portraits by Rogier and Robert Campin. In fact, the similarity between Rogier's and Campin's female portraits is so strong that they were sometimes mis-attributed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_of_a_Woman_(van_der_Weyden)
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