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Artist in the Global Art Registry
Lavinia Fontana
1552–1614 · Italian
- Born
- 1552 · Bologna
- Died
- 1614 · Rome
7 works in the Collect24 Registry
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Lavinia Fontana was an Italian Mannerist painter active in Bologna and Rome, known for successful portraiture, mythology, and religious painting. Trained by her father, Prospero Fontana, she is regarded as the first female career artist in Western Europe, relying on commissions for her income.
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Lavinia Fontana (24 August 1552 – 11 August 1614) was an Italian Mannerist painter active in Bologna and Rome. She is best known for her successful portraiture, but also worked in the genres of mythology and religious painting. She was trained by her father, Prospero Fontana. She is regarded as the first female career artist in Western Europe, as she relied on commissions for her income. Her family relied on her career as a painter, and her husband served as her agent and raised their 11 children. She was perhaps the first female artist to paint female nudes, but this is a topic of controversy among art historians.
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Registered works
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Featured works
Selected registered works by Lavinia Fontana
Selected from 7 works by Lavinia Fontana in the Collect24 Registry.
Lavinia Fontana
The Wedding Feast at Cana, about 1575–1580
Pen and brown ink over black chalk, heightened with white opaque watercolor; incised for transfer; lower right section squared
45.1 × 36.8 cm
J. Paul Getty Museum
C24-214203
Lavinia Fontana
The Wedding Feast at Cana, about 1575–1580
Oil on copper
47.3 × 36.2 cm
J. Paul Getty Museum
C24-137755
Lavinia Fontana
Virgin Adoring the Sleeping Christ Child, 1607
oil paint
15.2 × 25.4 cm
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
C24-452726
Lavinia Fontana
Portrait présumé de Laudomia Gozzadini, 1600
oil paint
27.5 × 21.3 cm
Department of Paintings of the Louvre
C24-250058
Lavinia Fontana
Venus and Cupid, 1592
oil paint
75 × 60 cm
Department of Paintings of the Louvre
C24-241390
Lavinia Fontana
Lucia Bonasoni Garzoni, c. 1590
oil on canvas
113.5 × 87.5 cm
National Gallery of Art
C24-102101
Lavinia Fontana
Portrait of a Prelate, ca. 1580
Oil on copper
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-103505
Museums and collections
Where works by Lavinia Fontana are registered
- Department of Paintings of the Louvre
France
2 works
- J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
2 works
- Museum of Fine Arts Boston
United States
1 work
- National Gallery of Art
Washington, D.C., United States
1 work
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, United States
1 work
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