Maria Maddalena Baroncelli
by MEMLING, Hans, Oil on wood, 44 x 34 cm
This painting is the pendant of the portrait of the sitter’s husband, Tommaso Portinari. Both paintings probably belonged to a triptych as the side wings.
It was Memling’s clever innovation to place the trompe-l’oeil frame not around but behind the sitter, which caused the sitter to be projected into the viewer’s space.