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.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
12/31/1969	Examination	examined for conditon
12/31/1969	Examination	other
7/03/1942	Treatment	inpainted; tears repaired; varnish removed or reduced
6/17/1943	Treatment	cleaned; inpainted; coated
1/01/1953	Examination	examined for condition
9/16/1959	Treatment	repaired; loss compensation; coated
9/16/1959	Treatment	tears repaired
7/07/1965	Treatment	examined for condition; other
2/28/1984	Examination	examined for loan
3/05/1984	Loan Consideration	examined for loan
3/05/1984	Treatment	cleaned; loss compensation; coated; other
3/05/1984	Treatment	lined; varnish removed or reduced

Exhibitions

• The Age of Caravaggio, 1590-1610. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museo di Capodimonte, Naples. 1985.

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.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902