Unknown noblewoman from the Auersperg family


France (?) possibly by Jean Fouquet around 1500 Tempera and oil on wood 85 x 64 cm Young woman, depicted to the waist, turned three-quarters to the right. She is wearing a padded, heart-shaped headdress, made of striped pale red and blue fabric, decorated with gold embroidery and pearls, with two long strips of richly embroidered fabric coming down near the shoulders. Dressed in a white shirt, a dark red velvet gown with slit sleeves and fur trimmings, held at the waist by a thin belt of the same material. The shirtsleeves, showing at the slits, are of a darkish grey colour. There is no signature. The portrait is the work of an excellent artist from the end of the 15th century, closely resembling the style of Jean Fouquet (around 1420-1481), the most important French painter of the 15th century. The high quality of the portrait makes it an outstanding painting in this collection of the HPM. The portrait had come to the Museum in 1952, through the Commission for Collecting and Preserving Cultural Monuments and Antiques (KOMZA). M. Schneider, Portreti 16-18. stoljeca, Zagreb, 1982, pages 196-197, catalogue number 288; G. Gamulin, Prijedlog za Jeana Fouqueta, Peristil 24, Zagreb, 1981., pages 41-44.




HPM/PMH-010297