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Source Description
Turning her gaze towards the spectator with one hand resting on her hip, this noblewoman has a stately, matronly appearance that is intended to express personal discipline and dignity. Her lavish costume-with a scarf tied to her hair, a brocade dress set with pearls and a feather, and jeweled pendants-communicates her social status, as does the column, suggestive of a palatial setting, a compositional device developed during the 16th century to communicate aristocratic status.For more information on this portrait, please see Federico Zeri's 1976 catalogue no. 421, pp. 531-532.
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Document identity
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2623
label
Portrait of a Noblewoman
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obj
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drawing
citationUrl
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1
Source metadata
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2623
sourceUrl
contentType
drawing
stage
normalized
title
Portrait of a Noblewoman
description
Turning her gaze towards the spectator with one hand resting on her hip, this noblewoman has a stately, matronly appearance that is intended to express personal discipline and dignity. Her lavish costume-with a scarf tied to her hair, a brocade dress set with pearls and a feather, and jeweled pendants-communicates her social status, as does the column, suggestive of a palatial setting, a compositional device developed during the 16th century to communicate aristocratic status.For more information on this portrait, please see Federico Zeri's 1976 catalogue no. 421, pp. 531-532.
provenance
Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1897 catalogue: no. 778, as Portrait of an Actress, by Largillière]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
ca. 1750 (Baroque)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Painting & Drawing
oil paintings (visual works)
portraits
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1
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1
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import
dimensions
units
cm
width
95.7
height
72.2
dimensionsRaw
Painted surface H: 37 11/16 x W: 28 7/16 in. (95.7 x 72.2 cm)
Source extras
med
oil on canvas
creator_ids
6573
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BAR
exhibition_ids
none
Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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02e1d944ab9b1d3c