Shown from the chest up, a light-skinned, blond young woman wearing a gold and red gown and pearls looks off to our left in this vertical portrait painting. Her face and body both angle to our left, and she gazes in that direction with brown eyes under faint brows. She has smooth skin, a long, straight nose, and her closed, light pink lips curl up slightly at the corners. Long, cottony, light blond hair falls over her ears and flows down beyond her shoulders. At the back of her head, she wears a caramel-brown cap decorated with black, web-like lines and a row of pearls along the front edge.…
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Portrait of a Lady

Neroccio de' Landi (Sienese, 1447 - 1500)

c. 1485

Medium
tempera on pine panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
painted surface: 47 x 30.5 cm (18 1/2 x 12 in.) ; overall (engaged frame): 61.8 x 45.6 x 5.2 cm (24 5/16 x 17 15/16 x 2 1/16 in.)
Culture
Sienese
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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