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Portrait of a Lady
(Baroque Europe )
This unidentified woman has a cool, confident expression. Her hair is powdered white, and her low-cut dress is decorated with flowers, but she wears no jewels, coquettishly suggesting the innocence of a simple shepherdess fashionably combined with urban sophistication. Though the execution is close to that of Longhi's signed known portraits and introduces the silvery tones which lend a quality of aristocratic detachment to his ladies, there are too few signed portraits of women by him to be certain of the attribution.
For more information on this portrait, please see Federico Zeri's 1976 catalogue no. 453, pp. 564-565.
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1897 catalogue: no. 815, as French School]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Exhibitions
| 2009-2010 | Venice in Canaletto's Age. The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota. |
Conservation
| Date | Description | Narrative |
|---|---|---|
| 4/27/1971 | Treatment | coated; inpainted; lined; loss compensation; surface cleaned; varnish removed or reduced; x-ray |
| 10/21/2008 | Examination | examined for exhibition |
Geographies
Italy, Venice (Place of Origin)
Measurements
Painted surface H: 31 3/4 x W: 25 11/16 in. (80.6 x 65.2 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902
Location in Museum
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
37.395