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 | |
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Year | 1557 (Julian) |
Dimensions | 136.8 cm (53.9 in) × 71.5 cm (28.1 in) |
Accession No. | 37.1016 |
The painting hangs in Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, United States.
References
- "Portrait of Marquess Massimiliano Stampa". Walters Art Museum.
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