Maria Maddalena, Grand-Duchess of Tuscany (1589-1631), with her Eldest Son Grand-Duke Ferdinand II (1610-1670), and...

possibly Jacopo Ligozzi (Verona 1547 - Florence 1627). Oil painting on canvas, Maria Maddalena, Grand-Duchess of Tuscany (1589-1631), with her eldest son Grand-Duke Ferdinand II (1610-1670), and youngest daughter Anna de' Medici, later Archduchess of the Tyrol (1616-1676), possibly Jacopo Ligozzi (Verona 1547 - Florence 1627). A three-quarter-length portraits of a woman and two children. The Grand-Duchess is seated at the left, half-turned to the right, gazing at the spectator, and holding a closed fan in her right hand, her short dark hair is topped with a jewelled tiara, and she wears a richly embroidered gold and white brocade dress with an overdress of black, embroidered with gold, which has false sleeves. She also wears pendant drop-pearl earrings, a pearl necklet and two long ropes of pearls one of which is tied with a scarlet bow, also pearl bracelets. She wears a wide upstanding lace ruff parted in the front and lace cuffs. On the right is her son, standing, gazing at the spectator, wearing a red and gold tunic 'alla Romana', lace ruff, breastplate and a tall scarlet and white ostrich-feather hat, in his right hand he holds a sceptre. On lower left standing beside her mother's knee, is a small child in a red and gold brocade dress, with false sleeves and with scarlet bows in her short dark curly hair, she also wears a collar ruff and a single string of pearls which she holds in her left hand, her leading-strings, consisting of a red ribbon is attached to her back and is held in her mother's left hand, behind, on the right is an architectural colonnade, with cloudy sky above. Top left inscribed 'Anne of Denmark, Queen of James I'. White catalogue number '78'l.l. Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk (Accredited Museum)