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Lacemaker

Lacemaker, c. 1650

Girolamo Forabosco
Italian, 1604/05-1679
Oil on canvas
32-1/2 x 26 in. (82.6 x 66.0 cm)
The Norton Simon Foundation
F.1965.1.148.P
© The Norton Simon Foundation

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Forabosco was a prominent baroque portrait painter, born in Venice and active there and in nearby Padua. His colors and use of light blend to give a gauzy, atmospheric effect, one reminiscent of his teacher Padovanino. Almost lost in the background top corners are two inscriptions that have been read as “EG;” it has been suggested that this may be a portrait of Eleanora Guadagni, although this proposal and a Guadagni provenance have not been confirmed.

The earliest secure reference to this painting is found in a public auction catalogue of the holdings of Sir William Richard Drake in 1891, where it is attributed to the School of Bronzino and called “Portrait of Eleanor Guadagni, in peasant costume, working lace”. The attribution to Forabosco was made later by the art historian William Suida, after it had entered the Duveen stock as part of the en bloc purchase of the Benson collection in 1927.

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