Portrait of a Young Woman with a White Coif

Portrait of a Young Woman with a White Coif at the Los Angeles County Museum, painted around 1541, is one of Holbein's late female portraits. The white headdress framing the face was characteristic of English female fashion during the final years of Henry VIII's reign. The delicate, almost sculptural treatment of the white linen headdress against the warm skin tones exemplifies Holbein's technical mastery in rendering different textures with equal precision.

The sitter's features are rendered with delicate precision against a blue background. The white coif provides a luminous frame for the carefully observed face.