Shown from the hips up, a pale-skinned woman with a long, narrow face wears a richly decorated crimson-red dress in this vertical portrait painting. Her body angles to our left, and she looks in that direction with hooded brown eyes. She has a long nose, a pointed chin, and her pink lips are closed. Deep indentations at her temples and the hollows of her cheeks are shadowed. Her brown hair is parted down the middle and held back in a gold net. Large pearls hang from her ears, and a long strand of pearls doubled around her neck look white at her collar and gray down by her waist. The bodice…
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Eleonora di Toledo

Agnolo Bronzino (Florentine, 1503 - 1572)

c. 1560

Medium
oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 86.4 x 65.1 cm (34 x 25 5/8 in.) ; framed: 111.4 x 89.5 x 9.2 cm (43 7/8 x 35 1/4 x 3 5/8 in.)
Culture
Florentine
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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