LAVINIA FONTANA (BOLOGNA 1552-1614 ROME)
Lot 176

LAVINIA FONTANA (BOLOGNA 1552-1614 ROME)

Portrait of a lady, bust-length, in a gold embroidered bodice with a high collar and a ruff

Closed8 July 2022

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GBP 11,340

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LAVINIA FONTANA (BOLOGNA 1552-1614 ROME)
Portrait of a lady, bust-length, in a gold embroidered bodice with a high collar and a ruff
oil on silvered copper, oval
2 1⁄4 x 1 3⁄4 in. (5.6 x 4.5 cm.)

Specialist note

The attribution has been confirmed by Dr Maria Teresa Cantaro on the basis of a photograph (letter, 21 December 2005). Dr Cantaro states that this work is both stylistically and formally close to the artist's series of small portraits produced in the last decade of the sixteenth century.