9 March 2018

Lavinia Fontana. Portrait of Bianca degli Utili Maselli, half Length, in an Interior, holding a Dog and surrounded by six of her Children, ca. 1605 (private collection).



Oil on canvas: 99 x 133.5 cm. Auctioned at Sotheby’s New York, January 2012. Mater familias Bianca degli Utili, wife of the nobleman Pierino Maselli. The epigraph formerly on her tomb in Rome revealed that she died in 1605 at the age of 37 after giving birth to her nineteenth(!) child.

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