Shown from the waist up, a pale-skinned young woman with tawny-brown hair wears a sapphire-blue gown in this vertical portrait painting. Her body is angled slightly to our right, and she turns her head back to our left to gaze down in that direction with dark blue eyes under thin brows. A delicate wash of petal pink tinges her cheeks on either side of a slender nose over small, pale rose lips, which are closed. Shadows mark the hollows of the temples in her high forehead, the hollows of her high cheeks within her broad face, and the corners of her eyes. Her hair is coiled and wound round…
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Lucrezia Sommaria

Ridolfo Ghirlandaio (Florentine, 1483 - 1561)

c. 1510

Medium
oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 62.9 x 45.7 cm (24 3/4 x 18 in.) ; framed: 94 x 78.7 x 7.6 cm (37 x 31 x 3 in.)
Culture
Florentine
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-R
Credit line
Widener Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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