Sibylla Sambetha

Sibylla Sambetha (the Persian Sibyl, also known simply as Portrait of a Young Woman) is a small oil-on-oak painting by the German-Flemish painter Hans Memling. The inscriptions on the border of the brown marble frame state that it was completed in 1480. However, there is no record of the woman's identity.

The picture shows a young woman who is not pretty but elegant and well-dressed. Her wealth and status are indicated by her hennin, chain and rings. She is set against a flat, black background and looks outwards beyond the pictorial frame, avoiding the viewer's gaze. Her hands are folded while her fingertips rest on the lower border of a painted brown marbled frame, in an early and effective example of trompe-l'œil, a device the art historian Matthias Depoorter described as allowing Memling to "merge the painted space with the real one".

The panel has been in the collection of the Old St. John's Hospital in Bruges si…

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