This painting is a portrait of a seated woman, her body turned slightly to the right and her head looking towards us. She has a fair complexion, with round, rosy cheeks, pale eyebrows, large green eyes, and thin pink lips in a neutral expression. Her light blonde hair is styled in short curls close to her head and adorned with pearls and a clip or barrette in the shape of small leaves. She is dressed in a cream-colored dress with intricate embroidery in shades of brown, gold, and black. On top of the dress is a long black garment that flows over her shoulders and upper arms and has a high…
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Lucia Bonasoni Garzoni

Lavinia Fontana (Italian, 1552 - 1614)

c. 1590

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 113.5 × 87.5 cm (44 11/16 × 34 7/16 in.) ; framed: 149.54 × 126.68 × 8.89 cm (58 7/8 × 49 7/8 × 3 1/2 in.)
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-R
Credit line
Gift of Funds from Anonymous in memory of Montana Walker Strauss, and Patrons' Permanent Fund
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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