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ÉCOLE ANGLAISE VERS 1600
Portrait de Laura de Noves
inscrit '.MADAM. .LAVRA.' (en haut, au centre)
huile sur panneau
61 x 44,5 cm. (24 x 1712 in.)
Provenance
Laurent Horny (1922-2000) ; sa vente, hôtel Drouot, Paris, (Mes Boisgirard & Antonini), 10 décembre 2018, lot 30.
Collection particulière.
FURTHER DETAILS
ENGLISH SCHOOL AROUND 1600, PORTRAIT OF LAURA DE NOVES, OIL ON PANEL, INSCRIBED

Our painting, which probably hung in a gallery of illustrious men, is an imaginary retrospective portrait of Laura de Noves (1310-1348), poetess and muse of Petrarch (1304-1374). The iconography of the model seems to have become fixed during the Renaissance: the Laurentian Library holds two representations of Laura de Noves wearing a cap that comes down to a point on the forehead. One is a portrait painted on a 1463 manuscript for Petrarch's Canzoniere e Trionfi. The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, holds a portrait of the poet and his muse dated around 1510 using the same iconographic model (inv. no. WA1897.22).
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Notre tableau, qui a probablement dû figurer dans une galerie des hommes illustres, est un portrait imaginaire rétrospectif de Laura de Loves (1310-1348), poétesse et muse de Pétrarque (1304-1374). L’iconographie du modèle semble s’être fixée à la Renaissance : la Bibliothèque Laurentienne conserve deux représentations de Laura de Noves coiffée d’un bonnet descendant en pointe sur le front. L’un est un portrait peint sur un manuscrit de 1463 reprenant les Canzoniere e Trionfi de Pétrarque. L’Ashmolean Museum d’Oxford conserve un portrait du poète et de sa muse daté aux alentours de 1510 qui reprend cette même iconographie (no. inv. WA1897.22).

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