Portret van Françoise van Egmond

The figure is depicted within an oval border, dressed in elaborate 16th-century attire including a high pleated ruff, jewelry, and a feathered cap. She gazes at the viewer with her right hand placed prominently on a skull, while her gloved left hand rests near the bottom of the frame.

This work is a classic memento mori portrait, utilizing the skull as a vanitas symbol to remind the viewer of the inevitability of death and the fleeting nature of worldly status. Such imagery was central to the moral philosophy of the Northern Renaissance, reflecting a concern with the soul's relationship to the transient physical body.