GERUNG, Matthias
(b. ca. 1500, Nördlingen, d. ca.1570, Lauingen)

Portrait of a Lady

1525
Oil on limewood panel
Private collection

Matthias Gerung belongs to the second generation of German Renaissance painters, trained under Hans Schäufelein, Dürer's principal pupil.

This portrait represents an unidentified lady, half-length, head in profile, wearing black with a white headdress, holding a book.