Shown from the waist up, a young woman with pale, peachy skin faces and looks directly at us in this vertical portrait painting. The subtly upturned corners of her mouth and the outer corners of her eyes are touched with shadows. Her delicate eyebrows are faintly painted over dark brown eyes. She has a long straight nose and an oval-shaped face framed by large teardrop pearl earrings. Her dark brown hair is parted down the middle and pulled back under a wide, gold-colored headdress, which creates a halo-like ring around her head. Precisely formed curls rest against her forehead over each…
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Portrait of a Lady

Bernardino Luini (Milanese, c. 1480 - 1532)

1520/1525

Medium
oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 77 × 57.5 cm (30 5/16 × 22 5/8 in.) ; framed: 98.11 × 78.42 × 6.99 cm (38 5/8 × 30 7/8 × 2 3/4 in.)
Culture
Milanese
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-R
Credit line
Andrew W. Mellon Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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