722. A LADY'S PORTRAIT.

_Unknown_ (German: 15th-16th century).

Formerly ascribed to Sigmund Holbein (1465-1540). A German

housewife--with a characteristic mixture about her of sentimentality

(for she holds a forget-me-not in her hand) and of austerity (for there

is something forbidding, surely, in these terribly angular fingers of

hers).