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Source Description
The unidentified noblewoman rests her hand on a keyboard instrument, the playing of which was considered virtuous for a woman. Pulzone has carefully rendered the textures of her luxurious dress down to the smallest details, including the refined lace of her cuffs and collar and the embroidery of the black dress.The stately, formal, and somewhat stiff three-quarter figure, exemplified by Pulzone's painting, had become standard for aristocratic portraiture in late 16th-century Europe.For more information on this painting, please seeFederico Zeri's 1976 catalogue no. 238, pp. 360-361.
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Document identity
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6807
label
Portrait of a Lady
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obj
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drawing
citationUrl
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1
Source metadata
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6807
sourceUrl
contentType
drawing
stage
normalized
title
Portrait of a Lady
description
The unidentified noblewoman rests her hand on a keyboard instrument, the playing of which was considered virtuous for a woman. Pulzone has carefully rendered the textures of her luxurious dress down to the smallest details, including the refined lace of her cuffs and collar and the embroidery of the black dress.The stately, formal, and somewhat stiff three-quarter figure, exemplified by Pulzone's painting, had become standard for aristocratic portraiture in late 16th-century Europe.For more information on this painting, please seeFederico Zeri's 1976 catalogue no. 238, pp. 360-361.
provenance
Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1897 catalogue: no. 396, as Giovanni Battista Moroni]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
ca. 1580-1589 (Renaissance)
citationUrl
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CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Painting & Drawing
oil paintings (visual works)
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1
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1
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import
dimensions
units
cm
width
119
height
91.2
dimensionsRaw
Painted surface H: 46 7/8 x W: 35 7/8 in. (119 x 91.2 cm)
Source extras
med
oil on canvas
creator_ids
3361
collection_ids
REN
exhibition_ids
2972
Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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