- Artist
- Fra Filippo Lippi
- Year
- ca. 1440
- Medium
- Tempera on panel
- Dimensions
- 64.1 × 41.9 cm
Public Domain
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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.