Funerary Portrait of a Woman

What you see

The portrait is painted on a scrap of linen with ragged edges, mounted on a pale cloth. The woman faces us, her dark hair rising in a tall, full arrangement that fills the upper part. She has fine brows, large eyes outlined in dark paint, a long straight nose and full lips. A pearl earring hangs from each ear.

Her skin is a golden ochre, and the background moves from greenish gray to a cooler gray on the right. Several cracks run across the cloth, one over the forehead, and in places the weave shows through the paint. A little dark red clothing appears at the lower right. Notice the pearls, made to shine with tiny touches of white.