Marchesa Maria Grimaldi, and Her Dwarf, Peter Paul Rubens
painted: c.1607 Oil on canvas, 241.5 x 139.5 cm Collection: National Trust - Kingston Lacy Estate, Dorset
The sitter is elaborately dressed. Her gown is fronted, edged and sleeved with gold braiding, and the cuffs are small white ruffs.
Around her neck is a vast cartwheel layered ruff. It is a sumptuous full-length portrait, probably of the marchesa Maria Grimaldi, whose father, Carlo Grimaldi, put his villa at Sampadierna at the disposal of Rubens and his employer, Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga I of Mantua, in 1607. She is accompanied by a dwarf and her dog, who has the letters A. M. inscribed on its collar. The dwarf pulls aside a curtain to reveal a grand architectural setting composed of a colonnade of Corinthian pillars; the foremost pillar is entwined with flowers coming from the formal garden to the left.
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