# Portrait of a Woman [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [LAURANA, Francesco]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Marble, traces of pigment, height 47 cm ## Commentary This bust with a French provenance is not securely identified. As the bust was discovered in Marseille, the work may date from after Laurana's return to France in 1477, and the sitter might be French. It is carved in one piece and has a deep hollow, projecting base with a tablet for an inscription. The sitter most often has been identified as Ippolita Maria Sforza, who married Alfonso, Duke of Calabria in 1465. ## Related artworks - [Alfonso of Aragon in Triumph with his Court \(detail\)]() - [Battista Sforza]() - [Battista Sforza]() - [Beatrice of Aragon]() - [Bust of a Lady]() - [Bust of a Lady]() - [Bust of a Princess]() - [Bust of Eleanor of Aragon]() - [Carrying the Cross]() - [Carrying the Cross]() - [Death-mask of a Woman \(Battista Sforza?\)]() - [Entrance Arch]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()