Margarethe Vöhlin, Wife of Hans Roth [reverse]

Bernhard Strigel painted this reverse of a portrait panel depicting Margarethe Vöhlin around 1527. Strigel, court painter to Emperor Maximilian I and the leading painter of Memmingen, produced portraits that document the Swabian elite Bernhard Strigel served as court painter to Emperor Maximilian I, making him among the most sought-after portraitists in the Habsburg world during the early sixteenth century Egg tempera on panel was the dominant technique of the period, demanding careful layer-by

The panel shows Strigel's careful late technique with the precise rendering of costume and physiognomy characteristic of his Swabian portrait practice.