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. Object Type: painting. Genre: portrait. Date: between circa 1760 and circa 1769 (Baroque). Place of creation: Venice, Italy. Dimensions: Painted surface height: 80.6 cm (31.7 in); width: 65.2 cm (25.6 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: Walters Art Museum. Pietro Longhi - Portrait of a Lady - Walters 37395
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