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| Keywords: Italian - Portrait of the Marchioness Angela Maria Lombardi - Walters 37400.jpg Angela Maria Lercari was born in Genoa in 1684 and married Marquis Anton Filippo Lombardi in 1704 The marchioness wears a splendid costume that enhances her beauty and marks her social status Her mantua a one-piece open robe is made of a sky-blue silk damask brocaded in silver and trimmed in the finest lace The so-called bizarre pattern of the damask produced in France and Italy was highly fashionable around 1700 The Latin inscription along the edges possibly a later addition cites her birth date family relations and Christian virtues The attention to detail is remarkable but has not led to the identification of the artist Zeri Italian paintings in the Walters Art Gallery 388 502-504 ca 1710 Baroque Oil on canvas Painted surface H of oval 40 15/16 x W 31 7/8 in 104 x 81 cm ; Stretcher cm 104 5 81 4 accession number 37 400 12644 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome date and mode of acquisition unknown 1897 catalogue no 772 as French School Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 Transcription Around the perimeter MARCHIONISSA ANGELA MA FILA IONIS THOM URBIS CONSERVATORIS PATRIT GENU NAT AN 1684 NICOLAI ME S R E CARD IS LERCARI SOROR ANT II FILIP I LOMBARDI PATRIT I ROM I ET GENU UXOR FORTIS MULIER PIETATE IN DEU AMORE IN LIBEROS CHARITATE IN PAUPERES PRAECLARA VIVAT DIU; Translation The Marchioness Angela Maria daughter of Giovanni Tommaso Conservatore of Rome and Genoese nobleman Born in the year 1684 sister of Nicola Maria Lercari cardinal of the Holy Roman Church Wife of Antonio Filippo Lombardi Roman and Genoese nobleman A woman of strong character famous for her piety towards God for her love towards her children for her charity towards the poor May she live long An Exhibition of the Treasures of The Walters Art Gallery The Walters Art Museum Baltimore; Pace Wildenstein Gallery New York; Smith College Museum of Art Northampton 1967 Reopening of the Costume Institute Galleries The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 1992-1993 Ambiente Barocco Life and the Arts in the Baroque Palaces of Rome The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts Design and Culture New York; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Kansas City 1999 place of origin Rome Italy Walters Art Museum license 2D 18th-century portrait paintings in the Walters Art Museum 1710c Baroque paintings in the Walters Art Museum Italian art in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review 18th-century oil oval portraits of women at half length 1710c Females with pearl bracelets in art 1710c Females with pearl necklaces in art 1710c Marchionesses of Italy Portraits with fans 1710c | ||||
