Shown from the waist up, a young woman with pale, faintly yellow-tinged skin and flushed cheeks looks at us in this vertical portrait painting. The woman’s body is angled to our right, and she gazes out from the corners of her brown eyes. She has a long nose, and her pale red lips are closed. Short strands of her dark brown hair curl onto her forehead, and the rest of her hair is covered by a net-like gold headdress fringed with pearls. More pearls dangle from a gold earring hanging from the ear we can see. A necklace with small black gems encircles her neck. Her brown garment is lined with…
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Portrait of a Lady

Francesco Salviati (Florentine, 1510 - 1563)

c. 1555

Medium
oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 67 x 52 cm (26 3/8 x 20 1/2 in.) ; framed: 92.7 x 78.7 x 12.7 cm (36 1/2 x 31 x 5 in.)
Culture
Florentine
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-R
Credit line
Gift of Samuel L. Fuller
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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