This striking picture is a good example of Genoese portraiture of the middle years of the seventeenth century. In the sober elegance of the sitter, the influence of Van Dyck is still visible, but she has not been identified. Her dress would suggest that she was either a member of the merchant class or the nobility. A rather similar picture, a three-quarter length of an unknown woman, is in the Galleria Sabauda, Turin.

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