La Fornarina
after Sebastiano del Piombo (Venice c.1485 - Rome 1547)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1512 (bears date) - 1800 - 1899
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
640 x 540 mm
Order this imageCollection
Cragside, Northumberland
NT 1230266
Caption
The original painting on which this copy was based was, until the late nineteenth century, thought to be by Raphael. It became known as 'La Fornarina' in the early 1800s. ‘La Fornarina’ was the name given to Margherita Luti, Raphael’s mistress, and though the original picture is no longer attributed to Raphael, the title has stuck. The artist who painted this copy has followed Sebastiano in dating the painting to 1512 at the lower left.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, La Fornarina, after Sebastiano del Piombo (Venice c.1485 - Rome 1547), 19th century, bears date, lower left 1512. A half-length portrait of a lady wearing a white and blue dress with fur trimmed cloak, after the original painting by Sebastiano del Piombo in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.
Provenance
Armstrong collection; transferred by the Treasury to The National Trust in 1977 via the National Land Fund, aided by 3rd Baron Armstrong of Bamburgh and Cragside (1919 - 1987).
Credit line
Cragside, The Armstrong Collection (acquired through the National Land Fund and transferred to the National Trust in 1977)
Marks and inscriptions
Bottom left: 1512
Makers and roles
after Sebastiano del Piombo (Venice c.1485 - Rome 1547), artist previously catalogued as after Raphael (Urbino 1483 – Rome 1520), artist