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This is one of the most stunningly lavish portraits ever painted. The sitter is wearing an opulent silvery silk gown laid over with gold embroidered lace which almost entirely covers the bodice and stomacher and falls in a wide border down the front of the skirt and along the bottom edge. Large golden oversleeves hang from her mid arm and fall to the floor while small, stiff ruff-cuffs are worn at the wrist. Her head emerges from a vast white and silver lace cartwheel ruff, the hair dressed high with flowers, sprays of jewels and a white egret feather. She sits on a red, plush high-backed chair with a parrot perched on it. The background is grand, composed of a stone classical arch with ionic pilasters which are inlaid with dark marble, and a large scarlet drape and a strip of sky with clouds.
Title
Marchesa Maria Serra Pallavicino (?)
Date
1606
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 233.5 x W 145 cm
Accession number
1257098
Acquisition method
bequeathed by Ralph Bankes, 1981
Work type
Painting
National Trust, Kingston Lacy
Wimborne Minster, Dorset BH21 4EA England
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