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| Keywords: Italian - Profile of a Woman - Walters 371849.jpg The woman depicted here in bust-length profile wears the costume of the early 15th century This is surely not a portrait of a particular woman but of a type a pretty young woman The painting is from a large series of similar bust-length profile portraits that would originally have hung in a row decorating the upper walls and possibly the ceiling of a private home The present figure is framed by cusped Gothic architecture The early provenance and style of the group suggest that they were executed by an artist in Lombardy in northern Italy but a specific attribution remains to be clarified For another panel from this series please see Walters 37 1110 Panels from this series belong to the Museo Poldi Pezzoli and to the Museo del Castello Sforzesco in Milan Zeri Italian paintings in the Walters Art Gallery 200 293-294 between 1475 1480 Renaissance paint on wood spruce panel Painted surface H 14 3/16 x W 14 1/2 x D excluding cradle 1/4 in 36 x 36 8 x 0 6 cm accession number 37 1849 4272 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome date and mode of acquisition unknown 1897 catalogue no 344 as School of Umbria or Ancona Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 place of origin Lombardy Italy Walters Art Museum license 2D Renaissance portrait paintings in the Walters Art Museum Italian Renaissance paintings in the Walters Art Museum Italian art in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
