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Shown from about the knees up, a woman with pale skin and honey-brown hair stands in the center of this vertical portrait painting. She turns her body slightly to our right and looks down to read a small, chocolate-brown book held up in her left hand, to our right. The book is decorated with gold bands and medallions on the spine and both covers. Her eyes are hooded under faint brows. She has a straight nose, and her small, coral-pink lips are closed. Her hair is pulled back and braided up along the side of her head. Small, translucent tendrils curl over her right temple, to our left. She…
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Quintilia Fischieri

Federico Barocci (Italian, probably 1535 - 1612)

probably c. 1600

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 123.8 x 95.3 cm (48 3/4 x 37 1/2 in.) ; framed: 161.9 x 135.9 x 14 cm (63 3/4 x 53 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.)
Culture
Roman
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-R
Credit line
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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