Age of sitter in gold [ANNO // ETATIS·SVÆ XVII] [at the age of 17]
Notes
English: The style of this young woman's sumptuous attire indicates that she was most likely a member of the English royal court from about 1540–47, during the time of Catherine Howard and Catherine Parr. The woman must have been of the highest levels of society, although her exact identity remains elusive. Most recently, James and Franco (2000) have suggested that she is Catherine Howard on the basis of her similarity to the sitter in a portrait miniature at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven. Although the portraits share certain details of costume and ornament, the physiognomies of the sitters are strikingly different. (Adapted from:– Ainsworth in: Ainsworth, Maryan W. & Waterman, Joshua P. (2013). German Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1350-1600. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art.)
References
Ainsworth, Maryan W. & Waterman, Joshua P. (2013). German Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1350-1600. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN9781588394873, pp. 155–57, 306–7, no. 37, ill. (color) and figs. 130–31.
James, Susan E. & Franco, Jamie S. (2000). "Susanna Horenbout, Levina Teerlinc and the Mask of Royalty". Jaarboek Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen., p. 124, fig. 22.: It is suggested that Portrait of a Young Woman, c.1540–45 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (ref. 49.7.30) seems to depict the same sitter as Portrait of an Unknown Lady, c.1535, attributed to Lucas Horenbout, at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven (ref. B1974.2.59), whom they identify as Catherine Howard.
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Portrait of a Young Woman ca. 1540–45, Workshop of Hans Holbein the Younger
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