17 January 2017

Leonardo da Vinci. Lady with an Ermine, ca. 1490 (Muzeum Czartoryskich, Kraków).


Oil on wood: 54 x 39 cm. One of only four portraits of women painted by Leonardo da Vinci. The subject has been identified as Cecilia Gallerani, who was the mistress of Leonardo's employer Ludovico Sforza. Signature in the upper left corner is not original. 

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