Portrait of a Young Woman

probably between 1650 and 1675

Girolamo Forabosco, Artist Girolamo Forabosco, Artist

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Title Portrait of a Young Woman

Artwork Date probably between 1650 and 1675

Makers Girolamo Forabosco (Artist) Italian, 1604/1605 -1679 Girolamo Forabosco (Artist) Italian, 1604/1605 -1679

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 32 13/16 × 27 1/2 inches (83.3 × 69.9 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit City of Detroit Purchase

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 26.105

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(Luigi Grassi, Florence, Italy)

1926-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Heil, W. "Some Recently Acquired Pictures of the Venetian School," Bulletin of the DIA 8, no. 5 (1927): pp. 49, 51, (repr. on cover) [as by Paris Bordone, noting previous attribution to Palma Vecchio].

Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, cat. 73, (repr.) [attrib. to Forabosco by H. Voss].

Richardson, E.P., ed. Catalogue of Paintings, 2nd ed. Detroit, 1944, p. 47, no. 73.

Fredericksen, B., & F. Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collection. Cambridge, 1972, p. 72 [as by Forabosco].

Spike, J. Italian Baroque Paintings from New York Private Collections. Exh. cat. Princeton, 1980, p. 62.

Pallucchini, R. La pittura veneziana del seicento, 2 vols. Milan, 1981, vol. 1, pp. 182, 185; vol. 2, p. 676, (fig. 537).

Bissell, R. W., A. Derstine, and D. Miller. Masters of Italian Baroque Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2005, pp. 9, 76-77, cat. no. 25 [entry by W. Bissell].

Derstine, Andria. "The Detroit Institute of Arts and Italian Baroque Painting." In Buying Baroque: Italian Seventeenth-Century Paintings Come to America, ed. Edgar Peters Bowron. University Park, 2017, pp. 97.

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possibly workshop of Girolamo Forabosco; possibly a copy after Girolamo Forabosco, Portrait of a Young Woman, probably between 1650 and 1675, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 26.105.