Woman with a Veil 1545 Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen Netherlandish Among Vermeyen’s remarkable and unusual etchings are several representations of anonymous female sitters shown half-length. The woman in this arresting image is depicted with a frankness atypical of the artist. Her gaze penetrates our space rather than avoids it, and she intimately engages the viewer through her sculptural solidity and state of half-dress, leading many to believe that Vermeyen depicted his wife or Woman with a Veil 632458

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