But she kept Leonardo’s portrait of her until her death in 1536, hanging it in her chambers. A live ermine may not seem like a natural accessory for a young lady, but it wasn’t quite as odd ...

Now, the remarkable story of the portrait - which is one of only four da Vinci paintings of women still in existence - has been told in Eden Collinsworth's new book, titled What the Ermine Saw.

A history of Leonardo da Vinci’s 15th-Century portrait, “Lady With an Ermine,” is also a history of modern Europe. Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani or Lady with an Ermine, 1488-1490 ...

In the opinion of British art historian John Pope Hennessy, “Lady With an Ermine” is “the first painting in European art to introduce the idea that a portrait may express the sitter’s ...

An ermine shares a gaze with Cecilia Gallerani, lady-in-waiting of the Duke of Milan, in Leonardo da Vinci’s famous portrait Lady with an Ermine, circa 1491. Weasels such as this have sharp ...

101.6 x 78.7 cm. (40 x 31 in.) ...

Leonardo da Vinci paints The Virgin on the Rocks and the portrait Lady with an Ermine. Leonardo da Vinci paints The Virgin on the Rocks – the most complex Madonna image of the entire Renaissance.

In fact, the Cecilia portrait, dated around 1489-91 and usually known as Lady with an Ermine, is one of Leonardo’s more prosaic works, though it is beautifully executed with an almost ...

Until sold ('Property from the Bergsten Collection'), London, Christie's, 16 April 1999, lot 129 (as circle of Jacopo Tintoretto), for £24,150; Where acquired by the present owners. Literature K.