A young woman in a truncated hennin and an ermine-trimmed gown looks sidelong out of a plain wainscoted room. Petrus Christus, working in Bruges in the wake of Jan van Eyck, sets her in a real space lit from the left, and gives her an alert, reserved gaze that few sitters of the time turn on the viewer.
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Her eyes are slightly misaligned and her eyebrows faintly skewed, which sharpens her stare. Note the black band under her chin, a detail rarely seen in portraits of the period.
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