Profile Portrait of a Lady
15th-century portrait by an unknown artist
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Profile Portrait of a Lady is oil on panel painting by an unknown Franco-Flemish artist, dated to about 1410. It is housed in the National Gallery of Art, Washington.[a]
The woman is wearing an early form balzo headdress over her hair, which has been plucked above her forehead to the point at which the balzo rests.