Title
Portrait of a Lady, c1760-1769. Creator: Pietro Longhi.
Caption
Portrait of a Lady, c1760-1769. This unidentified woman has a cool, confident expression. Her hair is powdered white, and her low-cut dress is decorated with flowers, but she wears no jewels, coquettishly suggesting the innocence of a simple shepherdess fashionably combined with urban sophistication. Though the execution is close to that of Longhi's signed known portraits and introduces the silvery tones which lend a quality of aristocratic detachment to his ladies, there are too few signed portraits of women by him to be certain of the attribution.
Credit line
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Reference
HRM23B21_293
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
License type
Rights managed
Available size
55,9Mb (1,9Mb) / 13,1in x 16,5in / 3936 x 4960 (300dpi)