Margaret of Austria

"Margaret of Austria," a captivating portrait from 1490, hangs before you here at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This intriguing young woman, whose likeness is captured in oil on canvas, is believed to be Margaret of Austria, though the artist who painted her remains a mystery. Measuring just under a foot wide and a little over a foot tall (0.23 meters by 0.327 meters), the painting's intimate scale draws us close to the subject.