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''Portrait of a Courtesan'' or ''Portrait of a Woman'' is a ''c.'' 1520 oil on canvas painting by Palma Vecchio, now in the Museo Poldi Pezzoli in Milan. Giovanni Mariacher, 'Palma il Vecchio', in ''I pittori bergamaschi-Il Cinquecento'', I, Bergamo, Poligrafiche Bolis, 1975
''Portrait of a Courtesan'' or ''Portrait of a Woman'' is a ''c.'' 1520 oil on canvas painting by Palma Vecchio, now in the Museo Poldi Pezzoli in Milan. Giovanni Mariacher, 'Palma il Vecchio', in ''I pittori bergamaschi-Il Cinquecento'', I, Bergamo, Poligrafiche Bolis, 1975
History
Probably produced during the artist's Venetian period, it was acquired by countGian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli
Gian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli (Milan 27 July 1822 – 6 April 1879) was an Italian count who gathered art from Italian Renaissance and left Italy one of the first private museum which bears his name, the Museo Poldi Pezzoli.
Biography
Son of Giu ...
for his new collection in 1865 as a work by Giorgione from the art dealer Terzaghi of Milan, without any earlier provenance. It was restored in the 19th century by Giuseppe Molteni
Giuseppe Molteni (Affori, Milan, 1800 – Milan, 1867) was an Italian painter.
Biography
Forced to abandon his studies at the Brera Academy for financial reasons, Molteni took up the restoration of ancient paintings as a pupil of Giuseppe Guizz ...
and Luigi Cavenaghi and in 1951 by Mauro Pellicioli.
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