Portrait of a Young Woman as a Wise Virgin
Sebastiano del Piombo
c. 1510
Woman as a Wise Virgin is a circa 1510 oil on canvas painting by Sebastiano del Piombo, now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington.
It shows its model as one of the wise virgins from the parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins. Its model also appears in Salome with the Head of John the Baptist and as Mary Magdalene in St John Chrysostom Altarpiece, both of a similar date - she may have been a lover of the artist.
The work was recorded as being owned by Jacobus van Veerle and his wife Jan in Antwerp in 1650.
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