Portrait of a Seated Woman
Anthonis Mor
1560–1570
- Medium
- Oil on panel, mounted on aluminum sheet
- Dimensions
- 121.8 × 88.8 cm (48 × 34 15/16 in.); Framed: 151.2 × 120.1 × 10.2 cm (59 1/2 × 47 1/4 × 4 in.)
- Genre
- oil on panel
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
paintingpaintChicago World's Fairs16th CenturywomanCentury of Progressportraits: female subjectoil on panelportraitpanel paintingoil paint (paint)painting (image making)aluminumpainting techniquesworld's fairschairoil paintingpanel (wood)european paintingdresses
About
Antonis Mor, who worked in Spain and the Low Countries, was court painter to Spanish king Philip II. He used a seated three-quarter-length format for sitters who did not belong to the nobility, making them appear more approachable. The woman represented here (along with her husband, whose portrait is now in the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh) probably belonged to the merchant elite of Antwerp. Her cap and braid-trimmed bodice were fashionable for Flemish women in the mid-16th century.
