Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement

Artist
Fra Filippo Lippi
Year
ca. 1440
Medium
Tempera on wood
Dimensions
25 1/4 x 16 1/2 in. (64.1 x 41.9 cm)

A young woman looks out from behind a low parapet while a man peers through a casement window behind her — one of the earliest double portraits in Italian painting. Fra Filippo Lippi’s panel, likely painted to mark a betrothal, balances the formality of the occasion with a startling intimacy.