Shown from the thighs up, a pale-skinned woman wearing a cream-white gown ornamented with gold bows looks at us from the corners of her brown eyes in this vertical portrait. Her body faces us, but she turns her head to our left. She has thin, arched eyebrows, a straight nose, flushed cheeks, a dimple in her chin, and her pink lips are closed. Her chestnut-brown hair is parted down the middle and pulled back under a gold and pearl headdress, but two wispy curls lie on her smooth forehead near the temple we can see. A string of black pearls ending in a gold pendant hangs down the front of her…
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Portrait of a Lady in White

Moretto da Brescia (Italian, 1498 - 1554)

c. 1540

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 106.4 × 87.6 cm (41 7/8 × 34 1/2 in.) ; framed: 142.24 × 116.21 × 10.8 cm (56 × 45 3/4 × 4 1/4 in.)
Culture
Brescian
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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