Portrait of a Lady in White

Provenance

Rocca collection, Como, Italy.[1] (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi [1878-1955], Florence and Rome); sold 1936 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[2] gift 1939 to NGA. [1] According to Kress records in NGA curatorial files. [2] According to Fern Rusk Shapley, _Catalogue of the Italian Paintings_, Washington, National Gallery of Art, 1979, vol. 1, p. 335-336. See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1686.

Portrait of a Lady in White

Moretto da Brescia

c. 1540

Accession Number

1939.1.230

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 106.4 × 87.6 cm (41 7/8 × 34 1/2 in.) | framed: 142.24 × 116.21 × 10.8 cm (56 × 45 3/4 × 4 1/4 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection