Portrait of a young girl, aged ten, three-quarter-length, in a black dress and white ruff, next to a table with a virginal

Little is known about Lorenz Strauch, who worked in Nuremberg as both painter and printmaker. His engravings provide an important insight into the city, where he seems to have garnered portrait commissions from the patrician elite. His self-portrait aged sixty is preserved at Nuremberg's Germanisches Nationalmuseum (inv. no. Gm429), as is his fascinating portrait of the goldsmith Christoph Jamnitzer (inv. no. Gm1453). A portrait of a twenty-year-old woman in almost identical costume was sold at Christie's in New York, 6 October 2004, lot 63.