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| Keywords: Sebastiano Ceccarini - Portrait of a Noblewoman - Walters 37410.jpg Turning her gaze towards the spectator with one hand resting on her hip this noblewoman has a stately matronly appearance that is intended to express personal discipline and dignity Her lavish costume-with a scarf tied to her hair a brocade dress set with pearls and a feather and jeweled pendants-communicates her social status as does the column suggestive of a palatial setting a compositional device developed during the 16th century to communicate aristocratic status Zeri Italian paintings in the Walters Art Gallery 421 531-532 ca 1750 Baroque Oil on canvas Painted surface cm 95 7 72 2 accession number 37 410 2623 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome date and mode of acquisition unknown 1897 catalogue no 778 as Portrait of an Actress by Largillière Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 place of origin Rome Italy Walters Art Museum license 2D Sebastiano Ceccarini 18th-century portrait paintings in the Walters Art Museum 1750c Baroque paintings in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs artist update 18th-century portrait paintings of unidentified women 1750c 18th-century oil portraits of standing women at half length 1750c Hand on chest in portrait paintings 1750c Left hand on hip in portrait paintings 1750c | ||||
