Sandro Botticelli · c. 1480
Idealised Portrait of a Lady (Simonetta Vespucci as a Nymph)
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A young woman in profile against a dark ground, her golden hair braided and threaded with pearls and a heron feather, a cameo medallion at her throat. Städel Museum, Frankfurt.
Up to 16 × 24.1 in · portrait
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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Materials & quality
›Canvas & inks
Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.
›Floater frame
Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.
›Posters
Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.
›Faithful to the source
Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.
The story of Idealised Portrait of a Lady (Simonetta Vespucci as a Nymph)
The painting is attributed to Botticelli and dated about 1480-1485, although some authorities give it to Jacopo da Sellaio. The medallion she wears copies in reverse 'Nero's Seal', an antique carnelian of Apollo and Marsyas that belonged to Lorenzo de' Medici. The art historian Aby Warburg first suggested that it is an idealised portrait of Simonetta Vespucci; the Städel's title reflects the older reading of an ideal beauty shown as a nymph.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sandro Botticelli
Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli or simply Botticelli, was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. Botticelli's posthumous reputation suffered until the late 19th century, when he was rediscovered by the Pre-Raphaelites who stimulated a reappraisal of his work. Since then, his paintings have been seen to represent the linear grace of late Italian Gothic and some Early Renaissance painting, even though they date from the latter half of the Italian Renaissance period.
All Sandro Botticelli prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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