id:			146469
accession number:	1972.121
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1972.121
updated:		2022-09-22 10:12:20.166000

Portrait of a Woman, c. 1550. Agnolo Bronzino (Italian, 1503–1572). Oil on wood; framed: 81.6 x 68.5 x 6.7 cm (32 1/8 x 26 15/16 x 2 5/8 in.); unframed: 60 x 48.8 cm (23 5/8 x 19 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1972.121

title:				Portrait of a Woman
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creation date:			c. 1550
creation date earliest:		1550
creation date latest:		1550
current location:		118 Italian Renaissance
creditline:			Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
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culture:	Italy, Florence, 16th century
technique:	oil on wood
department:	European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	P - Italian 16th & 17th Century
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Agnolo Bronzino (Italian, 1503–1572)  - artist

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measurements: Framed: 81.6 x 68.5 x 6.7 cm (32 1/8 x 26 15/16 x 2 5/8 in.); Unframed: 60 x 48.8 cm (23 5/8 x 19 3/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1973
	opening date:   1974-01-30T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1973</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 30-March 17, 1974).

	title:		Master Goldsmiths of the Renaissance: Their Models and Designs
	opening date:   1982-11-02T04:00:00
	<i>Master Goldsmiths of the Renaissance: Their Models and Designs</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 2, 1982-March 20, 1983).

	title:		Wealth and Beauty: Pier Francesco Foschi and Painting in Renaissance Florence
	opening date:   2022-01-29T05:00:00
	<i>Wealth and Beauty: Pier Francesco Foschi and Painting in Renaissance Florence</i>. Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA (organizer) (January 29-April 24, 2022) https://georgiamuseum.org/exhibit/wealth-and-beauty-pier-francesco-foschi-and-painting-in-renaissance-florence/.

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Meisterwerke alter Malerei aus Frankfurter Privatbesitz, Städelisches Kunst Institut, Frankfurt, 1925, no. 28 (pl. XXVII)<br>The Year in Review for 1973, CMA, Jan 30-March, 1983, no. 34.<br>Master Goldsmiths of the Renaissance: Their Models and Designs, CMA, Nov. 2, &#9;1982- March 20, 1983.  Gallery A- no catalogue

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PROVENANCE

	Stadelscher Museums-Verein, Frankfurt, in 1882;
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	Freifau Mumm von Schwarzenstein, Frankfurt;
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	Baron Max von Grunelius, Frankfurt;
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	[David M. Koester, Zurich], sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1972.
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wall description: 
Bronzino was court painter to Cosimo I de’Medici, the Duke of Florence. Though the woman cannot be definitively identified, she was likely affiliated with the Medici court. As in most of the portraits in this gallery, Bronzino emphasizes wealth, status, and courtly refinement above personality or individualized expression. The plain background further accentuates the work’s monumentality and grandeur, despite its small scale. The hand placed against the chest with elegantly spread fingers extends back to an ancient Greek pose of modesty, here emphasizing the proper comportment of a woman of high status. The sitter wears a linen partlet (collar) delicately embroidered in matt stitch, part of which is, like her cuffs, trimmed in fine lace.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 112
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n132

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 310-312; Reproduced: p. 311
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