The National Museum of Western Art

Updated 23 October 2025

On Display Permanent collection

  • Share
    ×
    • twitter
    • facebook
    • line
    • Copy permalink
  • Enlarge
  • Zoom
  • Print

On Display

Permanent collection

Lavinia Fontana

Bologna, 1552 - Rome, 1614

Portrait of Antonietta Gonzales

Date 1595?
Materials and Techniques Oil on canvas
Size(cm) 54.4 x 47
Inscriptions Inscriptions: “Dall’Isole Canari fu con / dotto al Re Enrico II di fra. / D. Pietro Huomo selvatico che / di presente se trova presso al Ser.mo / Duca di Parma dal qual naqui io / Antonietta et hora me trovo a presso / Alla Sig.ra donna Isabella Pallavicina / Sig.ra marchesa di Soragna 159(?)”
Category Paintings
Collection Number P.2024-0004

Provenance

Collection of Edgar Bérillon (1859-1948), Burgundy, France, then by descent; Rouillac, June 4, 2023 [Lot 00057]; purchased by NMWA, 24 July 2024.

Bibliography

2024
Cantaro, Maria Teresa. Il ritratto di Antonietta Gonzales "salvatica" ritrovato: dalla collezione di Ulisse Aldrovandi = The Rediscovered Portrait of "Wild" Antonietta Gonzales: from Ulisse Aldrovandi Collection. Roma, Gangemi editore SpA international, 2024, pp. 79, 99, Tav. 16, fig. 29, col. repr.

Page top

Permalink:https://collection.nmwa.go.jp/en/P.2024-0004.html

©2022 The National Museum of Western Art, Independent Administrative Institution National Museum of Art