| Portrait of a Lady | |
| Medium: | Oil on canvas |
| Height Metric: | 63.5 |
| Width Metric: | 51.8 |
| Metric Unit: | cm |
| Imperial Unit: | in |
| Museum: | Art Institute of Chicago |
| Accession: | 1954.301 |
Portrait of a Lady, formerly known as Portrait of Giulia Gonzaga, is an oil painting by, or possibly after, Titian. It is dated, broadly, to the period 1525–1565. The painting is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.
The attribution of this picture is uncertain, although it has long been associated with Titian. It is related to La Bella and Girl in a Fur. It has usually been entitled Portrait of Giulia Gonzaga,[1] but the identification with the Italian noblewoman of that name is no longer accepted; it is now entitled simply Portrait of a Lady.[2]
The painting is in poor condition, and was cleaned of earlier inpainting in the 1960s. Some paint and ground has been lost in the upper background and in the sitter's hair. The surface of the paint is abraded in places in the background, on the left side of the sitter's face, and on her bosom.
There is one other version in a private collection in Italy,[4] and there is a copy of the Chicago portrait in the Museo Cerralbo in Madrid.