# Portrait of Selvaggia Sassetti [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GHIRLANDAIO, Davide]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Tempera on panel, 57 x 44 cm ## Commentary Portrait of Selvaggia Sassetti c. 1490 Tempera on panel, 57 x 44 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Ghirlandaio brothers \(Domenico, Davide, Benedetto and Giovanni Battista\) operated a flourishing workshop in Florence that decorated chapels with frescoes filled with portraits. Even some of the workshop's large altarpieces contain a multitude of portraits. They also executed several independent portraits. The portrait of Selvaggia Sassetti is the work of Davide. Many commentators on this portrait observed that the sitter appears to be the same person as the girl standing behind the kneeling girl in the fresco of the <A onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/g/ghirland/domenico/5sassett/frescoes/6resurr3.html'\)" HREF="/html/g/ghirland/domenico/5sassett/frescoes/6resurr3.html">Resurrection of the Boy</A> in the Sassetti Chapel in the church of Santa Trinità, Florence. She is one of Sassetti's seven daughters, Selvaggia Margharita \(born in 1470\). Her wedding in 1488 seems to be the most likely occasion for commissioning the portrait, in which she is more mature than she is in the fresco that was painted three years earlier. ## Related artworks - [Aristotle and Diogenes]() - [Bust Portraits of Two Boys \(recto\)]() - [Christ Supported by the Virgin, Sts John the Evangelist and Joseph of Arimathea]() - [Portrait of a Young Man, Portrait of a Young Woman]() - [Portrait of a Young Man]() - [St Jerome]() - [Virgin and Child Enthroned between St Ursula and St Catherine]() - [Virgin and Child]() - [Virgin and Child]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()