Portrait of a young Lady
at Baltimore Museum of Art
Catarina van Hemessen
Flemish1528–1600
About
Caterina or Catharina van Hemessen was a Flemish Renaissance painter. She is the earliest female Flemish painter for whom there is verifiable extant work. She is mainly known for a series of small-scale portraits of women completed between the late 1540s and early 1550s as well as a few religious compositions.
Notable works
Young woman playing a virginal
at Wallraf–Richartz Museum
Portrait of a 42-year-old Man
at Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
Portrait of a 30-year-old Woman
at Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
Portrait of a woman (1555)
at Fitzwilliam Museum
Altarpiece with Scenes from the Old and New Testaments (the Tendila Retablo)
at Cincinnati Art Museum
Works in the collection
6 works
Portrait of a young Lady
at Baltimore Museum of Art
Young woman playing a virginal
at Wallraf–Richartz Museum
Portrait of a 42-year-old Man
at Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
Portrait of a 30-year-old Woman
at Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
Portrait of a woman (1555)
at Fitzwilliam Museum
Altarpiece with Scenes from the Old and New Testaments (the Tendila Retablo)
at Cincinnati Art Museum
More by Catarina van Hemessen in institutions
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
Fitzwilliam Museum
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Cincinnati Art Museum
Eden Park, United States
Baltimore Museum of Art
Baltimore, United States
Wallraf–Richartz Museum
Altstadt-Nord, Germany
