Keywords: Scipione Pulzone - Portrait of a Lady - Walters 37605.jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Q18749511 Creator Scipione Pulzone en The unidentified noblewoman rests her hand on a keyboard instrument the playing of which was considered virtuous for a woman Pulzone has carefully rendered the textures of her luxurious dress down to the smallest details including the refined lace of her cuffs and collar and the embroidery of the black dress The stately formal and somewhat stiff three-quarter figure exemplified by Pulzone's painting had become standard for aristocratic portraiture in late 16th-century Europe For more information on this painting please seeFederico Zeri's 1976 catalogue no 238 pp 360-361 ca 1580 1589 Renaissance Oil on canvas Painted surface cm 119 91 2 accession number 37 605 6807 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome date and mode of acquisition unknown 1897 catalogue no 396 as Giovanni Battista Moroni Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum 1931 by bequest Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 The Age of Caravaggio 1590-1610 The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York; Museo di Capodimonte Naples 1985 place of origin Rome Italy Walters Art Museum license 2D Renaissance portrait paintings in the Walters Art Museum Italian Renaissance paintings in the Walters Art Museum Scipione Pulzone Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review |