Included Text
Dom. Lucretiam de stirpe Borgia Alphonsi Ducis Biscelliae uxorem aetate xxiv sua anno MD Dantes Gabrieles Rossetti pinx.
Note: This text, transcribed by Marillier, is written on a banner at the base of the picture.
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
This is the first full-length portrait of Lucrezia Borgia by DGR, done almost a decade after painting the Borgia series. In this version, which was heavily overpainted to make the final version, Lucrezia is shown in a stiff pose, with brown hair rather than blonde. Along the base of the painting, DGR included a cartellino identifying Lucrezia as the wife of Alphonso, Duke of Bisceglia.
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