| Luigia Cattaneo-Gentile | |
| Other Title 1: | A Noblewoman from Genoa |
| Wikidata: | Q38395329 |
| Artist: | Anthony van Dyck |
| Year: | circa 1622 |
| Medium: | oil painting on canvas |
| Movement: | Baroque painting Portrait painting |
| Subject: | Portrait of an elderly woman from an aristocratic Northern Italian family |
| Height Metric: | 147 |
| Width Metric: | 112 |
| Dimensions Ref: | [1] |
| Metric Unit: | cm |
| Imperial Unit: | in |
| Museum: | Musée des Beaux-Arts |
| City: | Strasbourg |
| Accession: | 1890 |
Luigia Cattaneo-Gentile, also known as A Noblewoman from Genoa is a portrait painting by the Flemish Baroque painter Anthony van Dyck. It is on display in the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Strasbourg, France. Its inventory number is 200.[2]
The portrait was most likely painted in 1622, during Van Dyck's lengthy stay in Genoa, where he became the official portraitist of the members of the Genoese aristocracy. Luigia Cattaneo-Gentile was bought from the Durazzo family by Wilhelm von Bode in 1890 and was long thought to represent a marchesa from the House of Durazzo. The identification with the House of Cattaneo-Gentile instead, while already hypothesized in 1890, was only confirmed in 1986 by the Van Dyck specialist, Susan J. Barnes.[1]
From 1929 to 1965, the painting was attributed to Peter Paul Rubens, which was testament to its superior pictorial qualities, until the Rubens specialist Justus Müller-Hofstede determined that it was definitely an early masterpiece by a young Anthony van Dyck.[1] [2]