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href="/search/Objects/peopleSearch%3ASofonisba%20Anguissola;jsessionid=E160CAF3F4BACE4A6C1B97BA5284665F">Sofonisba Anguissola</a> (Italian (Cremonese), about 1532–1625)</div><div class="detailField cultureField"> Italian </div><div class="detailField displayDateField"> about 1556 </div><div class="detailField objectGeographyField"><hr class="detailLine"></div><div class="detailField mediumField"><span class="detailFieldLabel topLabel">Medium/Technique</span><span class="detailFieldValue"> Oil (?) on parchment<br></span></div><div class="detailField dimensionsField != null"><span class="detailFieldLabel topLabel">Dimensions</span><span class="detailFieldValue"> 8.3 x 6.4 cm (3 1/4 x 2 1/2 in.)<br></span></div><div class="detailField creditlineField != null"><span class="detailFieldLabel topLabel">Credit Line</span><span class="detailFieldValue"> Beth Munroe Fund—Bequest of Emma F. Munroe<br></span></div><div class="detailField invnolineField"><span class="detailFieldLabel topLabel">Accession Number</span><span class="detailFieldValue">60.155</span></div><div class="detailField onviewField"><span class="detailFieldLabel">ON VIEW</span><br><a class="locationLink" href="/search/objects/locations%3AGallery%20141%20%28Italian%20Renaissance%29/*;jsessionid=E160CAF3F4BACE4A6C1B97BA5284665F"> Italian Renaissance Gallery (Gallery 141) </a></div><div class="detailField collectionTermsField"><span class="detailFieldLabel topLabel">Collections</span><span class="detailFieldValue"><a href="/search/Objects/collectionTerms%3AEurope;jsessionid=E160CAF3F4BACE4A6C1B97BA5284665F">Europe</a></span></div><div class="detailField classificationsField"><span class="detailFieldLabel topLabel">Classifications</span><span class="detailFieldValue"><a href="/search/Objects/classifications%3AMiniatures;jsessionid=E160CAF3F4BACE4A6C1B97BA5284665F">Miniatures</a><br></span></div></div><div class="col-lg-6"><div class="detailField webDescriptionField">Praised by her contemporaries as the foremost woman painter of her day, Anguissola executed more self-portraits than any other artist in the period between Dürer and Rembrandt. This miniature displays the artist's meticulous technique and a Renaissance taste for puzzles: the interwoven letters at the center of the medallion form a monogram or phrase that has not been satisfactorily explained. Around the rim, the medallion is inscribed in Latin: "The maiden Sofonisba Anguissola, depicted by her own hand, from a mirror, at Cremona."<br><hr class="detailLine"></div><div class="detailField descriptionField"><span class="detailFieldLabel topLabel">Description</span><span class="detailFieldValue">Set in a metal frame with scroll surmount.<br></span></div><div class="detailField provenanceField"><span class="detailFieldLabel topLabel">Provenance</span><span class="detailFieldValue">By 1801, Richard Gough (b. 1735 - d. 1809), London [see note 1]; July 19-21, 1810, posthumous Gough sale, Leigh and Sotheby, London, lot 322. By 1862, Henry Danby Seymour (b. 1820 - d. 1877), Ashridge [see note 2]; by descent to his niece, Miss Jane Margaret Seymour (b. 1873 - d. 1943), Knoyle, Wiltshire; May 9, 1928, Seymour sale, Sotheby's, London, lot 61. November 9, 1959, anonymous sale ("the property of a lady"), Sotheby's, London, lot 28, to F. Kleinberger Galleries, New York (stock no. F1375); 1960, sold by Kleinberger to the MFA for $3,000 [see note 3]. (Accession Date: March 10, 1960) <br> <br>NOTES: <br>[1] The work was recorded and reproduced in the Gough collection in "Gentlemen's Quarterly," October 1801, p. 897. <br> <br>[2] Henry Danby Seymour lent the work to the South Kensington Museum as early as 1862, and, according to a letter from Harry G. Sperling of Kleinberger to the MFA (November 12, 1959), from 1912 to 1928, J. M. Seymour lent it to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Information about the dates of these loans (but not about the lenders) is confirmed in the 1959 Sotheby's catalogue. <br> <br>[3] Kleinberger Galleries Records, Watson Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art, stock card F1375.<br></span></div><div class="detailField objectGeographyField"><hr class="detailLine"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></section><div id="emuseum-mycollections-chooser"><div role="dialog" tabindex="-1" id="mycollections-chooser-modal" class="modal fade"><div role="document" class="modal-dialog"><div class="modal-content"><div class="modal-header"><button aria-label="Close" data-dismiss="modal" class="close" type="button"><span aria-hidden="true">×</span></button><h2 id="myModalLabel" class="modal-title">Choose Collection</h2></div><div class="modal-body"><div data-container-type="zone" id="addToMyCollectionsZone"><form data-validate="submit" data-update-zone="addToMyCollectionsZone" action="/objects/details.mycollectionschooser.newmycollectionform/33656;jsessionid=E160CAF3F4BACE4A6C1B97BA5284665F" method="post" id="newMyCollectionForm"><input value="33656/selfportrait" name="t:ac" type="hidden"><input value="O5dglaAjW/JaJ5m6OSqjIgrmYx0=:H4sIAAAAAAAAAJWQsUoDQRRFn4uCkEIQLOy1EGS2SRC0MSqCEEJg8QNmZ5+bCbPzxpm3btJY+RM2foFY6ReksPMf/AAbCysLd9cyIKY9XO493McPWKv2YY/SCSoO8Rmy1CYcFjNFxtRIkw1qTBTQCysLhOChRz4X0kk1RsHSYWA/6wlFHo1ORSoDin5aQ6n4XKPJdhLk0u1ezjvvW6/fEawMoKPIsiczrCsZNgcTeSNjI20eJ+y1zY+mjmG1GVzarr+s3ciTwhCSMi10CHXl/CnrXn09vEUAU1cdQPdf+8qjZLRYpSUz2Ubl+E8VRYUji5aDaLd50eQ++dx+eb47jSAawLoyuk5fZNdw236IBosaNB+2qPls41djiNVJq7FIfgAoSEbH8wEAAA==" name="t:formdata" type="hidden"><fieldset><legend>Create new collection</legend><input placeholder="Name" data-max-length-message="You may provide at most 50 characters for Name." data-validate-max-length="50" data-validation="true" id="name" class="form-control" name="name" type="text"><input value="Create and add" id="createNewButton" class="emuseum-button" data-submit-mode="normal" name="createNewButton" type="submit"></fieldset></form></div></div></div></div></div></div><script type="text/javascript"> var a2a_config = a2a_config || {}; a2a_config.onclick = 1; </script><script src="//static.addtoany.com/menu/page.js" async="async"></script><script type="text/javascript">var require = {"shim":{"t5/core/typeahead":["jquery"]},"baseUrl":"/modules.gz"}; </script><script src="/assets/stack/za2888560/en/core.js" type="text/javascript"></script><script type="text/javascript">require(["t5/core/pageinit"], function(pi) { pi(["/assets/meta/z9eae8294/js/emuseum.js"], ["t5/core/forms","t5/core/zone","bootstrap/alert","t5/core/validation"]); });</script></body></html>