DETAILS
- Artist
- Frans Pourbus the Younger
- Date
- 1589
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- 36 1/2 × 27 1/4 in. (92.7 × 69.2 cm)
- Collection
- European Paintings
- Credit line
- Bequest of Collis P. Huntington, 1900
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