# Portrait of a Girl

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## Artwork

- Artist: [FONTANA, Lavinia](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fontana-lavinia-ref01c9fffae70f>)
- Date: 1551-1600
- Technique: Oil on metal, diameter 10 cm

## Commentary

As a pupil of his father, Lavinia Fontana produced religious compositions, but by the late 1570s she had become established as a portrait painter and it is this genre for which she is most famous today. This small tondo represents a girl, in a pink embroidered dress, wearing a coral necklace. It is an example of the paintings of children at which she, a mother of eleven, excelled.

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- [Apollo and the Muses \(Parnassus\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fontana-lavinia-ref01c9fffae70f/apollo-and-the-muses-parnassus-r83531d3fe4b8bc>)
- [Family Portrait](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fontana-lavinia-ref01c9fffae70f/family-portrait-ra83502a464e406>)
- [Head of a Youth](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fontana-lavinia-ref01c9fffae70f/head-of-a-youth-rb7eb55f7c61229>)
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- [Portrait of a Lady](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fontana-lavinia-ref01c9fffae70f/portrait-of-a-lady-r93ae08986f34dc>)
- [Portrait of a Newborn in a Cradle](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fontana-lavinia-ref01c9fffae70f/portrait-of-a-newborn-in-a-cradle-r0114b278c29c13>)
- [Portrait of a Noblewoman](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fontana-lavinia-ref01c9fffae70f/portrait-of-a-noblewoman-rafbeb285602cc0>)
- [Portrait of a Notary](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fontana-lavinia-ref01c9fffae70f/portrait-of-a-notary-re45d9c9a8c14b6>)
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## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)