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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: 17th C Portrait of a Sultana, three-quarter length, in Turkish dress, Venetian School, 17th C
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17th C Portrait of a Sultana, three-quarter length, in Turkish dress, Venetian School

17th C
Oil on canvas
unframed: 130.2 x 98.9 cm.; 51¼ x 39 in.
framed: 150 x 118 cm.; 59⅛ x 46½ in.
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With her Turkish headdress and exotic costume, this type of sitter has come to represent a fantasy image of an Eastern woman viewed through Westerners' eyes. The rose she holds between her breasts may be a play on words identifying her as Rossa or Rosselana, the favourite wife of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent.
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Provenance

Edric van Vredenburgh, London, Sotheby's, 6 June 2006, lot 28;
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