Ginevra de' Benci  1478

by Leonardo da Vinci

She was the daughter of a wealthy Florentine banker, and her portrait—the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas—was probably commissioned about the time of her marriage at age 16. Leonardo himself was only about six years older. The portrait is among his earliest experiments with the new medium of oil paint; some wrinkling of the surface shows he was still lea...
Size: 
38.1 x 37 cm (15 x 14 9/16 in.)
Medium: 
Oil on panel
Credit: 
Courtesy of National Gallery of Art, Washington

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