# Family Portrait [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [FONTANA, Lavinia]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 85 x 105 cm ## Commentary The identity of this family group is not known. The sitters in the painting are positioned according to age and sex. On the top left, the old man pointing to the black dog is the deceased head of the family. At far right, the old woman in mourning garb is his widow. The other generations of youths and infants are portrayed in an harmonious balance of family relations. Each member of the family strikes the prescribed pose and gestures from a "sample book" of behavioural models. ## Related artworks - [Apollo and the Muses \(Parnassus\)]() - [Head of a Youth]() - [Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene]() - [Judith with the Head of Holofernes]() - [Minerva Dressing]() - [Minerva Dressing]() - [Portrait of a Girl]() - [Portrait of a Lady]() - [Portrait of a Newborn in a Cradle]() - [Portrait of a Noblewoman]() - [Portrait of a Notary]() - [Portrait of Antonietta Gonzalez]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()