Lady with an Ermine

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Artist : Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519)

Title : Lady with an Ermine

Object type : painting

Genre : portrait

Date : 1478

Medium : oil and tempera on panel

Dimensions : Height: 54.8 cm (21.5 in); Width: 40.3 cm (15.8 in)

Collection : National Museum in Kraków

Source/Photographer : https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/lady-with-an-ermine/HwHUpggDy_HxNQ?hl=fr

The Lady with an Ermine is a portrait painting credited to the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci. ( 1489–1491 ), the painting is in oils on a panel of walnut wood. Its subject is Cecilia Gallerani, a mistress of Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan; At the time of its creation, Leonardo was a painter to the Sforza court in Milan. It is the second of only four surviving portraits of women painted by Leonardo, the others being Ginevra de' Benci, La Belle Ferronnière, and the Mona Lisa.

The Princes Czartoryski Collection, including the Lady with an Ermine, was sold for €100 million on 29 December 2016 to the Polish government by Princes Czartoryski Foundation, appointed by Adam Karol Czartoryski, the last direct descendant of Izabela Czartoryska Flemming and Adam George Czartoryski, who brought the painting to Poland from Italy in 1798. It is now housed at the Czartoryski Museum in Kraków, and is one of Poland's national treasures.

The painting describes a half-height woman turned toward her right, but with her face turned toward her left. The animal in her arms twists in a similar manner, resulting in considerable contrapposto with the lady, a technique Leonardo discovered earlier with the angel in the Virgin of the Rocks. The work is prepared with a layer of white gesso and a layer of brownish underpaint. In common, the paint is evenly applied akin to the Mona Lisa, though some areas of the lady's skin are more layered. It is made from a single piece of walnut wood;Leonardo recommended and favored walnut wood, however it was not often used by other artists in Lombardy. The wood is thin and is probably from the same tree as the wood for his later portrait, La Belle Ferronnière. The Lady with an Ermine is also connected to La Belle Ferronnière, as well as Leonardo's earlier Portrait of a Musician, due to the three paintings having black backgrounds.

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