Unknown Artist, Italian
Portrait of a Lady of the Medici Court
c. 1600-1620
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, Unframed: 81 5/8 × 43 7/8 in. (207.3 × 111.4 cm.)
Framed: 92 3/4 × 55 3/4 × 4 3/4 in. (235.6 × 141.6 × 12.1 cm.)
Credit Line
The Jacob Epstein Collection
Object Number
1951.102
The Baltimore Museum of Art on deposit; The Baltimore Museum of Art on extended loan, 1932-1951; the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, by bequest, 1945; Jacob Epstein, Baltimore, MD, by purchase, by 1932; Galerie Neumans, Brussels; Christie's, London, May 17-18, 1928, lot 46; Lieutenant-Colonel Sir George Lindsay Holford, London, England, by 1913.
Grafton Galleries, “Exhibition of Spanish Old Masters in Support of National Gallery Funds and for the Benefit of Sociedad de Amigos del Arte Espanola,” October 1913 to January 1914.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, “A Century of Baltimore Collecting, 1840-1940: an Exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art,” June 6, 1941 to September 1, 1941.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, “A Century of Baltimore Collecting, 1840-1940: an Exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art,” June 6, 1941 to September 1, 1941.
Exhibition of Spanish Old Masters in Support of National Gallery Funds and for the Benefit of Sociedad de Amigos del Arte Espanola, October 1913 to January 1914, 2nd edition, exhibition catalogue (London, Grafton Galleries, 1913), no. 78, pp. 82-83.
Benson, Robert, ed. The Holford Collection, Dorchester House, vol. II (Oxford: Oxford University Press, Humphry Milford, 1927), cat. no. 121, plate 109 (as Medici Princess).
Gibson, William. “The Holford Collection,” Apollo, 7:203, 1928.
Final Portion of the Collection of the Important Pictures by Old Masters, chiefly of the Dutch, Flemish, French, Spanish, and British Schools, the property of the late Sir George Lindsay Holford, sale catalog (London, Christie’s, 1928), no. 46, p. 35.
The Jacob Epstein Collection in the Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, published by Jacob Epstein, 1939), 5.
A Century of Baltimore Collecting, 1840-1940: an Exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art, June 6, 1941 - September 1, 1941 (Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art), cat. no. 76.
Chappell, Miles. “Portrait of a Lady of the Medici Court.” In Italian Paintings 14-18th Centuries from the Collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art, ed. Gertrude Rosenthal (Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1980), 215-229, ill. p. 214.
Artist
Unknown Artist, Italian
On View: Jacobs, Gallery 9
