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The fashionable costume suggests the date for this picture. The sitter may be Lucia Albani, who married Faustino Avogadro of Brescia in 1550 (possibly represented in the Moroni portrait 'A Knight with his Jousting Helmet'.
She holds an early form of fan in her left hand.
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The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DN