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Source Description
This unknown woman wears the somber black dress and white double cap of a widow. She is seated in a chair of simple design, identifiable as Florentine and of a type associated with the austere lifestyle of the earlier religious reformer Girolamo Savonarola (1452-98). The simplicity of the colors, directness of the sitter's demeanor, and composition reflect the "reform" movement in Florentine painting in the later 1500s. The paint surface is now damaged and it has not been possible to identify the artist. For another portrait from about the same time of a widow by the famous woman portraitist, Lavinia Fontana, see Walters 37.1915.
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Document identity
localId
32847
label
Portrait of an Elderly Woman
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obj
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drawing
citationUrl
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1
Source metadata
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32847
sourceUrl
contentType
drawing
stage
normalized
title
Portrait of an Elderly Woman
description
This unknown woman wears the somber black dress and white double cap of a widow. She is seated in a chair of simple design, identifiable as Florentine and of a type associated with the austere lifestyle of the earlier religious reformer Girolamo Savonarola (1452-98). The simplicity of the colors, directness of the sitter's demeanor, and composition reflect the "reform" movement in Florentine painting in the later 1500s. The paint surface is now damaged and it has not been possible to identify the artist. For another portrait from about the same time of a widow by the famous woman portraitist, Lavinia Fontana, see Walters 37.1915.
provenance
Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1881 catalogue: no. 234; 1897 catalogue: no. 501, as Hans Holbein the Younger]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
2nd half 16th century (Renaissance)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Painting & Drawing
oil paintings (visual works)
panel paintings
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1
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1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
98.3
height
72.3
depth
1
dimensionsRaw
Painted surface H: 38 11/16 x W: 28 7/16 x D excluding cradle: 3/8 in. (98.3 x 72.3 x 1 cm)
Source extras
med
oil on wood panel
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18723
collection_ids
REN
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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