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Young Woman in Green Dress
Young Woman in Green Dress is an oil painting by the High Renaissance artist Palma Vecchio. It dates from 1513 and is held in the collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum.
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Subject & Meaning
The work depicts a single woman, presented as a portrait genre piece created by Palma Vecchio in 1513.
The work depicts a single woman, presented as a portrait genre piece created by Palma Vecchio in 1513. While the subject is identified simply as a woman, the painting is characterized by her distinctive green dress, which serves as the primary visual identifier and focal point of the composition. As a portrait from the Venetian Renaissance, the representation focuses on the individual's presence and attire rather than explicit narrative symbolism or allegorical figures. The image captures the sitter in a direct manner consistent with the portraiture style of the period.
Technique & Style
Palma Vecchio executed Young Woman in Green Dress in 1513 using oil paint on a support measuring 50 cm in height and 40.5 cm in width. As a portrait of a woman, the work exemplifies the artist's approach to the genre through the Venetian tradition of oil painting.
History & Provenance
The painting Young Woman in Green Dress is dated 1513 in a technical summary, which establishes its early sixteenth-century origin within Palma Vecchio’s known oeuvre.
The work later entered the collection of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, whose holdings formed a nucleus of the present-day Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. By the mid-seventeenth century it had passed to Bartolomeo della Nave, a Venetian collector whose estate was dispersed in 1636. It subsequently belonged to James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, before reappearing in an inventory compiled by Leopold Wilhelm, indicating its return to the Habsburg collections by the 1650s.
Young Woman in Green Dress is held in the collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum. Its documented ownership history traces through Bartolomeo della Nave, James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, and Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria before entering the museum's holdings. No specific inventory or accession number is recorded in the available sources, and no exhibition history is documented.
Overview
Young Woman in Green Dress is a 1513 oil painting by Jacopo Palma, known as Palma Vecchio, a Venetian artist of the Italian High Renaissance.
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Artist
Palma Vecchio (c. 1480 – 30 July 1528), born Jacopo Palma, also known as Jacopo Negretti, was a Venetian painter of the Italian High Renaissance. He is called Palma Vecchio in English and Palma il Vecchio in Italian…
