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Portrait of a Girl
Creator
Carlo DolciItalian Artist · 1616–1687
All works by this person →"[S]ometimes he would take weeks over a single foot," biographer Baldinucci wrote about Carlo Dolci's painstaking painting process. According to Baldinucci, Dolci's final decline was triggered by Luca Giordano's 1682 visit to Florence. Luca joked that his own rapid style had brought him a fortune, but Dolci would starve if he kept taking so long. Already suffering from depression, Dolci plunged de
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- about 1665
- Medium
- Black and red chalks
- Culture
- Italian
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Getty Museum
Who is this young girl? The strand of pearls encircling her neck, the chain hanging beneath her bodice, and her heavily embroidered gown all suggest that she is from an upper class family, but nothing more is known of her identity. The girl stares out from large eyes. Her wispy, shoulder-length hair is held back with a ribbon, and her upturned lips reveal a slight trace of a smile. Carlo Dolci's contemporaries greatly admired him as a portrait painter, although he preferred to be known for his religious scenes. Here his sharp eye for detail captured the pale fringe of hair that frames her forehead, the small, hooped earrings, and the rosy flushed cheeks. The delicate chalk strokes that shade her face contrast with the looser style used on her dress. A series of zigzagging lines describes the ornament on her bodice, while loose shading gives texture to the fabric.
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