LAURANA, Francesco
(b. ca. 1430, Vrana, d. 1502, Avignon)

Portrait of a Woman

1472-74
Marble, traces of pigment, height: 46,6 cm
Frick Collection, New York

This bust with a French provenance is not securely identified. It is carved in one piece and has a deep hollow, projecting base with a tablet for an inscription. The sitter most often has been identified as Ippolita Maria Sforza, who married Alfonso, Duke of Calabria in 1465.