This painting depicts a woman with fair skin and orange-brown hair under a black net, wearing a green dress with puffed sleeves and sheer details around the wide neckline. Her body is slightly angled to the left, and her eyes are pointed slightly below us. She also wears a thin gold chain around her neck and a smaller black bead necklace, with a red flower behind her left ear that hangs downward. She has a straight nose, arched brown eyebrows, rosy cheeks, and pink lips in a neutral expression. A small, fluffy gray dog appears to sit in her lap, and the background is dark, with a few…
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Portrait of a Young Woman

painter Florentine 16th Century

1530/1540

Medium
oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 55.9 × 44.5 cm (22 × 17 1/2 in.) ; framed: 82.55 × 71.76 × 9.53 cm (32 1/2 × 28 1/4 × 3 3/4 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
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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