Marten van Cleve, 1527 Antwerpen – 1581 ebenda,... Lot n° 282

IMAGE OF AN OLDER WOMAN WITH WHITE HAT Oil on slate. Tondo. Diameter: 9 cm. Dated "1552" on the upper edge. Half-length portrait to the left, brown doublet with black collar over white blouse, against a dark background. Studied under Frans Floris (c. 1516-1570) and initially discovered his preference for landscape painting. However, prompted by his brother Heinrich, he soon devoted himself almost exclusively to figurative painting. His mostly multi-figure genre paintings are often only superficially understood as partly humorous scenes, behind which, however, a deeper allegorical or socio-critical meaning is not infrequently concealed. In 1551 he became a member of the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke. A.R. (1302057) (11) Marten van Cleve, 1527 Antwerp - 1581 ibid., attributed PORTRAIT OF AN ELDERY WOMAN WITH WHITE CAPOil on slate. Tondo. Diameter: 9 cm. Dated "1552" on top margin. Half-length portrait to the left, brown waistcoat with black collar over white blouse against dark background.