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CRANACH, Lucas the Elder: Portrait of a Young Girl

🖼 Portrait of a Young Girl, c. 1540
Oil on wood
39 × 25 cm
Paris, France

Soft brushwork captures a young girl's pale complexion and delicate features against deep shadow, her jeweled headdress gleaming with meticulous detail. Cranach's intimate portrait exemplifies Northern Renaissance refinement and reveals the status symbols of 16th-century German nobility through luxurious dress and composed elegance.

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