Portrait of Giovanna of Aragon, seated three-quarter length, in her chamber

After the painting in the Louvre, Paris. The original was commissioned from Cardinal Bibbiena, ambassador to the French court in 1518, as a gift for King Francis I of France. Raphael himself never saw the sitter, who was married to Asciano Colonna, and instead sent his pupil, Giulio Romano, to Naples to prepare the cartoon from life. Luitpold Dussler believes therefore that Raphael, although certainly responsible for the design, did not even paint the head, as was claimed by Vasari (L. Dussler, Raphael: A Critical Catalogue of his Pictures, Wall-Paintings and Tapestries, 1971, p. 63). Giulio Romano's cartoon, once in the collection of Alfonso d'Este in 1519, is now lost. Dussler (op. cit.) lists copies in the Staatliche Museum, Berlin-Dahlem; the Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig; and formerly in the Baron Speck von Sternburg Collection, Leipzig-Lützchena.

In a Dutch 17th century carved and gilded Lutma frame, with imbricated fruit and acanthus leaves running from a sunflower cresting to a similar base.