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portrait of Beatrice d'Este and attributed to Leonardo da Vinci . So also Dalli Regoli (1985), who considered the drawing the copy from a lost original by Leonardo. The most notable similarities are in the clothing and the ornament. The necklace, with its alternating black beading, perhaps references the colors of an ermine and the three strands might reference her three pregnancies.
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in 1920; the owner, Mrs Andrée Lardoux Hahn, sued for defamation of property in a notorious court case, which involved many of the major connoisseurs of the day, inspecting the two paintings side by side at the Louvre; the case was eventually heard in New York before a jury selected for not knowing
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Karl Morgenstern (1813) and other critics noted some similarities with the drawing number 209 preserved in the Uffizi, executed in lapis and watercolor but retouched a little hard everywhere by a hand of the sixteenth century, which was identified by Father Sebastiano Resta (XVII century) as a
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Its earliest secure appearance was its purchase in 1847 by Antoine Vincent, from the collection of the comte de Betz, as from General Louis Tourton. (Brewer).
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However, "Ferroniere" could be a reference to Beatrice Sforza's birthplace, the Duchy of Ferrara, derived from the Latin word for iron, "ferrum".
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The painting's title, applied as early as the seventeenth century, identifying the sitter as the wife or daughter of an ironmonger (a
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Herbert Cook, "Some Notes on the Early Milanese Painters Butinone and Zenale. Part III (Conclusion) – Zenale as a Portrait Painter"
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and Larry Keith, Leonado Da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan, Exhibition Catalogue, National Gallery (London, 2011)
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and Larry Keith, Leonado Da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan, Exhibition Catalogue (National Gallery, London, 2011)
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is still shrouded in mystery, the landmark exhibition "Leonardo Da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan" (
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compared: the pose is similar, but the clothing is different; even the look varies significantly.
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as the original, but was identified as a copy, on the basis of a photograph, by
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Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Central Italian and North Italian Schools
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has also been known by this name. This was once believed to be a portrait of
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to Duchess Beatrice of Milan, who became another of the Duke's mistresses.
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62 cm × 44 cm (24 in × 17 in)
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A later version of the painting, on canvas, had been offered to the
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The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist
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Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci (Milan)
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The American Leonardo: A Tale of Obsession, Art and Money
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Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist
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Index


Leonardo da Vinci
Oil on wood
Louvre
[labɛlfɛʁɔnjɛʁ]
Leonardo da Vinci
Louvre
Francis I of France
Lucretia Crivelli
lady-in-waiting
Lady with an Ermine
Cecilia Gallerani
Ludovico Sforza
Izabela Czartoryska
ferronnière
National Gallery, London
Beatrice d'Este
Ludovico Sforza
Lucrezia Crivelli

Beatrice d'Este
Bernard Berenson
Bernardino de' Conti
Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio
Herbert Cook
Kansas City Art Institute
Sir Joseph Duveen
Morellian connoisseurship
conspiracy theory
art world

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