Portrait of a Woman
Bernardino Campi
late 1560s · Oil on canvas · European Paintings
The son of a goldsmith, Bernardino Campi began his artistic training in his native Cremona. Period sources indicate that he was an active portraitist in the major capitals of northern Italy, but few of these likenesses survive and almost none of their sitters have been identified with any certainty. The stately reserve of this woman, dressed in finery with an elaborate fan in one hand and a little dog under the other, is difficult to reconcile with the printed poems that praised Bernardino’s sitters as being so lifelike and filled with vitality that dogs and children responded to them as if they were alive. This painting was seized by the Nazis from Baron Karl Neuman (Charles Neuman de Végvár) in Paris and restituted to him by 1947.
- Artist
- Bernardino Campi
- Date
- late 1560s
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Department
- European Paintings
- Credit line
- Gift of Edith Neuman de Végvár, in honor of her husband, Charles Neuman de Végvár, 1963
