American Art Association; Tolentino, Raoul [Oth.]: Gothic and Renaissance Italian and French art: gathered by Raoul Tolentino, expert antiquarian of Rome : fourth session, April 25, 1924 (New York City: American Art Association, 1924)

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JACOPO ROBERTI
Called IL TINTORETTO (1512—1594)
Venetian School of the Sixteenth Century
714—PORTRAIT OF ELIZABETH FOSCARI
Canvas: Height, 45 inches; width, 371/> inches
Three-quarter-length figure of a young woman seated in a straight-backed
armchair covered with red velvet. She wears a black velvet robe with lace
fichu, a pleated lace ruff, pearl drop earrings, a pearl necklace, gold bracelets
and a chain girdle of gold. Her hair is drawn back from her forehead and
she wears a curious headdress of coiled Murano glass. Her hands rest on the
arms of the chair, and at her side is an open window through which is seen a
mountainous landscape. Background of dark drapery, with, in the upper left-
hand corner, the inscription in Roman characters: “ELISABEta FILIA. IOSs.
ALEGE PROCs. UXs. ALOVIws. FOSCvs. EQEvs. GIACOBUS. TIN-
TORETO. Fte.” Signed. In old carved and gilded wood frame.
From the Volpi Collection, sold in Florence in 1910 and illustrated in his
catalogue.