Wed Mar 20, 2019 08:36 PM

Morning Modelbuch (3/21/2019)

Portrait of Eleonora Garcia di Toledo (Dianora) by the workshop of Francesco Brina in the Museo civico di Montepulciano https://www.museocivicomontepulciano.it/it/opere-sezione-pinacoteca/dipinti/bottega-di-francesco-brina-firenze-not-dal-1565-al-1586

I have run across a couple of other versions of the painting that are in private collections. One is in the book _Medici Women: Portraits of Power, Love, and Betrayal in the Court of Duke Cosimo I_ by Gabrielle Langdon. I can’t find an attribution for the other.

The scrolling folate motifs show up a lot of places, but there are some lovely ones in_Lucidario di Recami_ designed by Iseppo Foresto and published by Calepino in 1564 As the portrait is dated between 1565 and 1586, it seemed a good match https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/660812