Portrait of a Lady in White
c. 1540
Artist, Italian, 1498 - 1554

Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 106.4 × 87.6 cm (41 7/8 × 34 1/2 in.)
framed: 142.24 × 116.21 × 10.8 cm (56 × 45 3/4 × 4 1/4 in.) -
Accession
1939.1.230
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Rocca collection, Como, Italy.[1] (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi [1878-1955], Florence and Rome); sold 1936 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[2] gift 1939 to NGA.
[1] According to Kress records in NGA curatorial files.
[2] According to Fern Rusk Shapley, Catalogue of the Italian Paintings, Washington, National Gallery of Art, 1979, vol. 1, p. 335-336. See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1686.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1939
La Pittura Bresciana del Rinascimento, Palazzo Tosio-Martinengo, Brescia, 1939, no. 108.
1940
Italian Renaissance Portraits, M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1940, no. 19.
Masterpieces of Art. European & American Paintings 1500-1900, New York World's Fair, May-October 1940, no. 9, repro.
1988
Alessandro Bonvicino- Il Moretto, Monastero di S. Giulia, Brescia, 1988, repro.
Bibliography
1941
Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 136, no. 341.
1942
Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 246, repro. 155.
1959
Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 198, repro.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 94.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 82, repro.
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century. London, 1968: 92, fig. 221.
Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Central Italian and North Italian Schools. 3 vols. London, 1968: 1:279.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 246, repro.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:335-336; 2:pl. 244.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 284, repro.
1995
Buss, Chiara. Silk and Colour: Collezione Antonio Ratti. Milan, 1997: 40, repro.
2023
Galansino, Arturo and Simone Faccinetti. Moroni (1521-1580). Il ritratto del suo temo. Exh. cat. Gallerie d'Italia, Milan, 2023: 116.
Wikidata ID
Q20176260