DOLCI, Carlo
(b. 1616, Firenze, d. 1687, Firenze)

Portrait of Vittoria della Rovere in Widow's Weeds

1680s
Oil on canvas, 84 x 57 cm
Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti), Florence

Vittoria della Rovere (1622-1694) was Grand Duchess of Tuscany as the wife of Grand Duke Ferdinando II de' Medici. She survived her husband by nearly twenty-five years. For all her married life, she kept in her personal cloakroom the cherished art collection she had brought from Urbino as a child bride.