# Portrait of a Woman [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CORNEILLE DE LYON]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Oil on wood, 20 x 16 cm ## Commentary Portrait of a Woman c- 1535 Oil on wood, 20 x 16 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg The French Renaissance was much assisted by the Italian enthusiasm of King Francis I \(r. 1515-47\), who during three invasions of the peninsula established contacts with artists and poets; it expressed itself primarily in a blossoming portrait painting. Young aristocrats increasingly commissioned likenesses of their sweethearts, demanding that artists observe not so much upper-class decorum as vivid naturalness. The miniature portraits of Corneille de Lyon, a native of The Hague, illustrate this tendency. The sitter of this portrait was probably Marquise de Rothelin or Françoise de Longwy-Givry. ## Related artworks - [A Young Lady]() - [François de Montmorency]() - [Jean de Bourbon-Vendôme]() - [Pierre Aymeric]() - [Portrait of a Gentleman]() - [Portrait of a Lady]() - [Portrait of a Man]() - [Portrait of Gabrielle de Rochechouart]() - [Portrait of Louise de Rieux]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()