Marchesa Maria Grimaldi, and Her Dwarf

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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.

National Trust, Kingston Lacy

Wimborne Minster

Title

Marchesa Maria Grimaldi, and Her Dwarf

Date

c.1607

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 241.5 x W 139.5 cm

Accession number

1257100

Acquisition method

bequeathed by Ralph Bankes, 1981

Work type

Painting

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