Portrait of Juana of Austria and a Young Girl

Portrait of Joanna of Austria with a Young Girl
Juana of Austria and a Young Girl
Year	1561-1562
Dimensions	194 cm (76 in) × 108.3 cm (42.6 in)
Location	Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Owner	Isabella Stewart Gardner
Accession No.	P26w15

The Portrait of Juana of Austria and a Young Girl is a full-length portrait executed by the Italian sixteenth-century artist Sofonisba Anguissola. It was one of Anguissola's first paintings after arriving at the Spanish court, where she was official painter to the queen of Spain, Isabel de Valois. In a letter to the artist Bernardo Campi, she said that the painting was for the Pope, who was then Pius IV. ^{[1] [2]}

Juana of Austria (1535–1573) was the Queen Regent of Spain, and daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.

The Portrait of Juana of Austria and a Young Girl is in the collection of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, United States. ^[3]

See also

• List of paintings by Sofonisba Anguissola

References

1. Cole, Michael Wayne, 1969- (11 February 2020). Sofonisba's lesson : a Renaissance artist and her work. Princeton. p. 126. ISBN   978-0-691-19832-3. OCLC   1108816930.
2. The rule of women in early modern Europe. Cruz, Anne J.,, Suzuki, Mihoko, 1953-. Urbana. 2009. p. 113. ISBN   978-0-252-03416-9. OCLC   246893165.
3. "Juana of Austria and a Young Girl | Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum". www.gardnermuseum.org. Retrieved 2020-04-25.