Description
The flamboyance of the drapery, both around the woman's shoulders and behind her, shows the influence of French portraiture--geared to the ambitions of the aristocracy--throughout Europe.
Provenance
Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1897 catalogue: no. 810, as French School]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Credit
Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902
