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Portrait of a young woman holding a fan
Also titled Portret van een jonge vrouw met waaier
Giambattista Moroni (Bondio, ca. –1578)
1560 - 1578
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 7.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Much of Moroni’s career was passed in the provincial town of Bergamo in North Italy. He specialized in portraiture. The directness and warm sympathy with which he portrayed his sitters, whatever their rank, places him among the foremost practitioners of his age. This woman’s sumptuous clothing and costly jewels proclaim her social status, but there is alas no clue to her identity.
