''Luigia Cattaneo-Gentile'', also known as ''A Noblewoman from
Genoa
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'' is a
portrait painting
Portrait Painting is a genre in painting, where the intent is to represent a specific human subject. The term 'portrait painting' can also describe the actual painted portrait. Portraitists may create their work by commission, for public and pr ...
by the
Flemish Baroque painter
Baroque painting is the painting associated with the Baroque cultural movement. The movement is often identified with Absolutism, the Counter Reformation and Catholic Revival,[Anthony van Dyck
Sir Anthony van Dyck (, many variant spellings; 22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641) was a Brabantian Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Southern Netherlands and Italy.
The seventh c ...]
. It is on display in the
Musée des Beaux-Arts of
Strasbourg
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, France. Its inventory number is 200.
The portrait was most likely painted in 1622, during Van Dyck's lengthy stay in Genoa, where he became the official portraitist of the members of the Genoese aristocracy. ''Luigia Cattaneo-Gentile'' was bought from the
Durazzo family by
Wilhelm von Bode in 1890 and was long thought to represent a ''
marchesa'' from the House of Durazzo. The identification with the House of Cattaneo-Gentile instead, while already hypothesized in 1890, was only confirmed in 1986 by the Van Dyck specialist, Susan J. Barnes.
From 1929 to 1965, the painting was attributed to
Peter Paul Rubens, which was testament to its superior pictorial qualities, until the Rubens specialist Justus Müller-Hofstede determined that it was definitely an early masterpiece by a young Anthony van Dyck.
See also
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List of paintings by Anthony van Dyck
The following is an incomplete list of works by the Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641).
Portraits (1613–1632)
Between 1613 and 1632, van Dyck travelled all over Europe – from his native Antwerp (where he began working as a painte ...
References
External links
''Portrait d’une noble Génoise, Luigia Cattaneo-Gentile'', presentation on the museum's website
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Portraits by Anthony van Dyck
1620s paintings
Paintings in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg