''Violante'' is an oil painting attributed to

Titian Tiziano Vecelli or Vecellio (; 27 August 1576), known in English as Titian ( ), was an Italians, Italian (Republic of Venice, Venetian) painter of the Renaissance, considered the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school (art), ...

, dated to around 1515 and now held at the

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History

The work was part of the Venetian collection of

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and in 1636, it was sold to the

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, who brought it to

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. In 1659, it was acquired by

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, whose collection later became part of the current museum. The title refers to the traditional identification with Violante, the daughter of painter

Palma the Elder Palma Vecchio (c. 1480 – 30 July 1528), born Jacopo Palma, also known as Jacopo Negretti, was a Venetian painter of the Italian High Renaissance. He is called Palma Vecchio in English and Palma il Vecchio in Italian ("Palma the Elder") to di ...

(to whom the painting was assigned for a long time), which has however no proof. An etching by

David Teniers the Younger David Teniers the Younger or David Teniers II (bapt. 15 December 1610 – 25 April 1690) was a Flemish Baroque painter, printmaker, draughtsman, miniaturist painter, staffage painter, copyist and art curator. He was an extremely versatile arti ...

show the painting having larger size, although a representation of the archduke's gallery from the same artist depicts it in the same current size.Catalog #194
in Teniers the Younger's publication ''

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'' The painting must have been a popular painting when it was in the Archduke's cabinet, as it was portrayed in his gallery paintings. File:Arolsen Klebeband 13 060.jpg, Etching from the Arolsen klebeband, a version of the catalog by Teniers, which shows the Palma the Elder attribution File:David Teniers the Younger - modello for Theatrum Pictorium 1673.jpg, This painting, along with its pendant

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in the frontispiece for Teniers the Younger's catalog of 1659-1673 File:El archiduque Leopoldo Guillermo en su galería de pinturas en Bruselas (David Teniers II).jpg, Archduke's gallery (collection Prado) File:David Teniers d. J. 008.jpg, Archduke's gallery (collection Kunsthistorisches Museum) File:Gallery of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in Brussels - Petworth House.jpg, Archduke's gallery (collection Petworth House) The work was attributed to Titian by Italian art historian

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. The woman portrayed is very similar to that in the '' Balbi Holy Conversation'' and a series of portraits of wavy-haired blonde women such as the '' Woman at the Mirror'', ''

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'', the ''

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'', '' Salome'' and the '' Young Woman with Black Dress''.

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* {{Authority control 1515 paintings Portraits by Titian Paintings in the Kunsthistorisches Museum Portraits of women Paintings in the collection of the Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria

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