![‘The Parca Lachesis’ painted by Pietro Bellotti, circa 1684.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/die-parze-lachesis-komplett-254x300.jpg)
A goddess with wrinkles
Who paints older women? A look at art history shows that painters have always struggled with the subject matter and that they usually needed a pretext to even depict them at all.
![‘Old Age II (old woman warming up)’, by Bernese painter Albert Anker, circa 1885.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/anker-hohes-alter-ii-229x300.jpg)
![‘La Vecchia’, painted by Giorgio da Castelfranco, known as Giorgione, circa 1510.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/la-vecchia-giorgione-1510-267x300.jpg)
![Albrecht Dürer drew his mother when she was 63.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/durers-mutter-berlin-219x300.jpg)
![‘The Parca Lachesis’ painted by Pietro Bellotti, circa 1684.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/die-parze-lachesis-komplett-254x300.jpg)
Who paints older women? A look at art history shows that painters have always struggled with the subject matter and that they usually needed a pretext to even depict them at all.