''Profile Portrait of a Lady'' is oil on panel painting by an unknown Franco-Flemish artist, dated to about 1410. It is housed in the

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. The woman is wearing an early form

balzo headdress The Balzo was a headdress worn by noblewomen of Italy in the 1530s. It was donut-shaped but appeared turban-like from the front, though it was generally worn further back from the forehead exposing the hair, unlike a period turban A turban (fro ...

over her hair, which has been plucked above her forehead to the point at which the balzo rests.

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* Hand, John Oliver and Martha Wolff. ''Early Netherlandish Painting''. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, 1986: 90–97, repro. 91. * Panofsky Erwin. ''Early Netherlandish Painting: Its Origins and Character''. 2 vols. Cambridge, Mass., 1953: 1:82, 171, 392 note 2; 2: pl. 43, fig. 92. * Sterling, Charles. ''La peinture de portrait à la cour de Bourgogne au début du XV^e siècle.'' Critica d'Arte 6, 1959: 289, 299, 304,306, 308, 312, fig 193. * ''Virtue and Beauty: Leonardo's Ginevra de' Benci and Renaissance Portraits of Women''. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001–2002: no. 1.

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