same frolic, different century

and usual thanks Wikimedia

This is the exact same sort of thing that has been going on in my house all morning (see any resemblances?).

However, this portrait dates from 1538, an oil on wood panel of Madam Cleophea Holzhalb by the 16th-century Swiss artist Hans Asper. Asper was sort of a "grandpupil" of Albrecht Durer, having studied with Durer's own student Hans Leu, and you may see that late-Gothic look in this portrait. There's no background setting to take your reference away from the sitter, who is posed in three-quarter view and portrayed in heavy outline. Remember Durer's hare portrait? Same sort of treatment.

Cleophea's last name means "wood half" if translated literally from the German. How fascinating. I wonder why.