Etching. Very good impression and condition, with margins. To the platemark 283 x 192 mm.

In Lorenzo Tinti’s posthumous commemorative portrait of 1665, the printmaker represents Sirani with paintbrush and palette in hand standing before a canvas, within an oval frame inscribed Elisabeth Sirana Celeberr. Pictrix Bonon…, and the whole surrounded by allegorical symbols of her profession, her ingegno, and her learning in the ?elds of painting, sculpture, poetry, music and song, geometry, literature, and philosophy.