Portrait of a Lady

c. 1555

Francesco Salviati

Artist, Florentine, 1510 - 1563

Francesco Salviati

Attributed to

Shown from the waist up, a young woman with pale, faintly yellow-tinged skin and flushed cheeks looks at us in this vertical portrait painting. The woman’s body is angled to our right, and she gazes out from the corners of her brown eyes. She has a long nose, and her pale red lips are closed. Short strands of her dark brown hair curl onto her forehead, and the rest of her hair is covered by a net-like gold headdress fringed with pearls. More pearls dangle from a gold earring hanging from the ear we can see. A necklace with small black gems encircles her neck. Her brown garment is lined with black-dotted white fur at the neck and down the open front. Under it, her raspberry-pink, long-sleeved dress is lined with gold trim. A long, thick gold chain lies between the fingers of her right hand, closer to us, and a gold and jewel medallion dangles from the bottom. he is lit from our right against a dark brown background.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on panel

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Samuel L. Fuller

  • Dimensions

    overall: 67 x 52 cm (26 3/8 x 20 1/2 in.)
    framed: 92.7 x 78.7 x 12.7 cm (36 1/2 x 31 x 5 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1952.6.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Samuel L. Fuller [1875-1963], New York; gift 1952 to NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1969

  • Loan for display with permanent collection, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1969-1972.

1973

  • Loan for display with permanent collection, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1973-1976.

1998

  • A Collector's Cabinet, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1998, no. 53.

Bibliography

1965

  • Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 120.

1968

  • National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 107, repro.

1972

  • Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972: 205, 647, as by Michele di Ridolfo.

1975

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 318, repro.

1979

  • Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:333-334; 2:pl. 242, as Attributed to Michele di Ridolfo.

1985

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 365, repro.

Wikidata ID

Q20176550

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