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| Keywords: Italian - Portrait of a Lady - Walters 37394.jpg Italy en This unidentified fashionably dressed lady wishes to be represented above all as a student of ancient culture On the table next to a sheet of music is a cabinet with casts of ancient carved gems which were often collected along with-or instead of-the actual gems; for the serious student even one such as the sitter who is armed with a magnifying glass casts bring out details that hard to see in the original carving Also they could be duplicated as a set for those with scholarly interests but without the means to acquire the originals In addition the lady wears a portrait miniature of a gentleman her deceased husband father or teacher The portrait is painted in the new neoclassical style which emphasizes clearly delineated forms ca 1780 1789 Baroque Oil on canvas Painted surface cm 99 2 75 7 accession number 37 394 11127 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome date and mode of acquisition unknown 1897 catalogue no 813 as Portrait of a Daughter of Pilker French School Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 QUELL' OCCHIETTO LANGU implicit IDO NON MI it On the sheet of music that languid little eye not to me place of origin Rome Zeri Italian paintings in the Walters Art Gallery 428 539-540 Walters Art Museum license 2D 18th-century portrait paintings in the Walters Art Museum 1789< 18th-century portrait paintings of unidentified women 1789< 18th-century oil portraits of sitting women at three-quarter length 1789< Fichu 1789< Baroque paintings in the Walters Art Museum Italian art in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Portraits holding medal or coin Depictions of portrait miniatures in paintings | ||||
