Shown from the waist up, a pale-skinned woman wearing a jeweled dress faces our left in profile in this vertical portrait painting. She looks into the distance with the light brown eye we can see, under a faint, arched brow. She has a petite nose, smooth, lightly flushed cheeks, and her peach-colored lips are closed. Her rust-brown gown is trimmed with wide, mustard-yellow panels studded with pearls, rubies, and sapphires along the front of the bodice and down the sleeve we can see. The elbow of that sleeve, near the bottom edge of the painting, is gathered in intricate, narrow pleats. White…
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Ginevra Bentivoglio

Ercole de' Roberti (Ferrarese, c. 1455/1456 - 1496)

c. 1474/1477

Medium
tempera on poplar panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 53.7 × 38.7 cm (21 1/8 × 15 1/4 in.) ; framed: 85.09 × 66.68 × 13.34 cm (33 1/2 × 26 1/4 × 5 1/4 in.)
Culture
Ferrarese
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
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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