Portrait of a girl, bust-length, in a white headdress

Details

After Guido Reni
Portrait of a girl, bust-length, in a white headdress
oil on canvas laid down on board
24½ x 19¾ in. (62.2 x 50.2 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 of the original to Reni was challenged by the late Dr. Stephen Pepper, who suggested that the composition derives from a prototype by Elisabetta Sirani influenced by Reni and his studio (see S. Pepper, Guido Reni, Oxford, 1984, p. 304, no. C6).

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