Portrait of a girl in a white headdress

Details

After Guido Reni
Portrait of a girl in a white headdress
oil on canvas
24¼ x 19¼ in. (61.6 x 48.9 cm.)
in a 19th Century Florentine carved and gilded frame

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Lot Essay

After the composition of which a version is in the Galleria Corsini, Rome. Traditionally identified as a portrait of Beatrice Cenci, the attribution to Reni was challenged by the late Dr. Stephen Pepper, who suggested that the composition derives from a prototype by Sirani influenced by Reni and his studio (Guido Reni, Oxford, 1984, p. 304, no. C6).

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