Jacopo Robusti known as Tintoretto (1518 - 1594) , workshop of; Marietta del Tintoretto (c. 1554 - 1590) (?); or Cesare Vecellio (1521 -1601) (?) Flora or Female Portrait (Irene of Spilimbergo?), c. 1580 - 1590. Oil on canvas 50 x 40 cm Distinctive elements: on the frame, in black pen, 'L.K 768 / SAF'; paper label tied with red thread in the left-hand corner of the verso, in black pen, 'L.K. 768' Provenance: Safarik Collection, San Michele in Teverina; Koelliker Collection (September 2002) Conservation status. Support: 80% (rintelo, frame replaced) Conservation status. Surface: 65% (diffuse discolouration, also on the face, worn background) In 16th century Venice the portrait enjoyed its period of greatest popularity and fortune, in the wake of masterpieces by great masters such as Titian, Veronese and Tintoretto. The 'Portrait of a Girl' presented here in the bare strength of the original painting, after careful cleaning and not yet reintegrated, has long been kept in the collection of Eduard A. Safarik (1928-2015), a great connoisseur of Venetian painting, of the lagoon and hinterland, between the 15th and 18th centuries. His contributions on the London vedute by Canaletto (1961), Sebastiano del Piombo (1963), Veronese (1964, 1968, 1988), the Venetian 18th century in Czech collections (1964), Cariani (1972, 1984), Forabosco (1973, 1996) can be mentioned by topic, Francesco and Pietro Calzetta (1974), Girolamo and Giulio Campagnola (1974), Mazzoni (1974), Camillo Capelli (1975), Liss (1975), Caprioli (1976), Eismann (1976), Ruschi (1976), Caroto (1977), Negri (1978), Catena (1979), Pallucchini (1981, 1984, 2001), Fetti (1984, 1985, 1990, 1996; of Fetti Safarik also edited the catalogue raisonné in 1991), 17th century painting in Venice (1988, 1989, 2003), still life in the Veneto (1989), Tinelli (1990), Johann Kupezky (1964, 1972, 2001). Safarik considered the small canvas under examination to be a self-portrait of Marietta Robusti (c. 1554 - 1590), daughter of Jacopo Tintoretto (c. 1518 - 1594), an exceedingly rare painter despite her early fame. (... read more: complete catalogue entry in the pdf catalogue at https://goforarts.com/doc/VB_IT_2_2/Meraviglie_Atto_II_HR.pdf . The catalogue also includes lots that are not available on online platforms, including many of the most prestigious).