# Mary of Burgundy [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [UNKNOWN MASTER, Austrian]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Oil on fir panel, 44 x 31 cm ## Commentary The picture shows Mary, Duchess of Burgundy \(1457-1482\), the first wife of Archduke Maximilian of Austria, later Holy Roman Emperor. This posthumous portrait is one of the five extant profile portraits of the sitter. The painting was attributed to various painters, Hans Maler became the favoured attribution. In the 1990s, the investigation of the reverse of the panel revealed another \(overpainted\) image of the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception, as well as an inscription and a date. The monogram on the reverse shows the superimposed letters AH or HA and the date 1528 which was already present when the image of the Virgin was added in the late seventeenth or the eighteenth century. Thus the painting may now be assigned to the Master A.H. or H.A. who was perhaps an artist from Tirol. ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Altar]() - [Cardinal Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg]() - [Christ as Man of Sorrow below the Cross]() - [Festivities]() - [Hercules and Achelous \(detail\)]() - [Hercules and Achelous]() - [Madonna on a Crescent]() - [Portrait of Kunigunde of Austria]() - [St Catherine]() - [The Nativity]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()