# Portrait of a Woman [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CARPACCIO, Vittore]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Oil on wood, 29 x 24 cm ## Commentary The small painting can be compared with the famous Venetian Ladies in the Museo Correr in Venice, one of Carpaccio's masterpieces. With the same hairstyle as the two Venetian women, the girl in the Borghese Gallery is wearing a triple string of silver links and one of pearls, which can be interpreted as a sign if chastity \(the pearl was considered one of the Virgin Mary's attributes\) and, in the light of the Serenissama's sumptuary laws, of wealth and nobility. She was probably a young bride-to-be or newly-wed. ## Related artworks - [Agony in the Garden]() - [Apotheosis of St Ursula \(detail\)]() - [Apotheosis of St Ursula]() - [Arrival of the English Ambassadors \(detail\)]() - [Arrival of the English Ambassadors \(detail\)]() - [Arrival of the English Ambassadors \(detail\)]() - [Arrival of the English Ambassadors \(detail\)]() - [Arrival of the English Ambassadors \(detail\)]() - [Arrival of the English Ambassadors \(detail\)]() - [Arrival of the English Ambassadors]() - [Baptism of the Selenites \(detail\)]() - [Birth of the Virgin]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()