Portrait of Marquess Massimiliano Stampa

The Portrait of Marquess Massimiliano Stampa is a painting by the Italian sixteenth-century artist Sofonisba Anguissola. It is one of the earliest commissions for Anguissola, commissioned by the Stampa family to record the bequest of the title Marquess to Massimiliano. According to a note on the reverse of the painting, the boy was nine years old and the third son in the Stampa family. [1]

Portrait of Marquess Massimiliano Stampa
Year1557 (Julian)
Dimensions136.8 cm (53.9 in) × 71.5 cm (28.1 in)
Accession No.37.1016 

The painting hangs in Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, United States.

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