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Description

Agnolo Bronzino
portrait of Eleanora of Toledo, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (1522-62), half length, in a richly embroidered and bejewelled dress
inscribed by a later hand on the stretcher: Bianca Capello/ da Santo di Titi-scholari di Agnolo Bronzino
oil on canvas

Literature

J.P. Richter, 1901, p. 33, no. 80.

Catalogue Note

The sitter was the daughter of Don Pedro di Toledo, Viceroy of Naples, and in 1539 she married Cosimo de' Medici, 2nd Duke of Florence and later 1st Grand Duke of Tuscany. She was the mother of two succeeding Grand Dukes: Ferdinando I and Franceso. The latter married Bianca Capello, whom this portrait was formerly thought to represent.