The extraordinary quality and specific style characteristics of this enchanting portrait undoubtedly point to Giuseppe Molteni […]
This painting, which confirms his skill and sensitivity as a colorist, belongs to perhaps the happiest and most mature phase of his career between the late 1830s and the first half of the 1840s […]
In this case too, the artist distinguished himself not only for his masterful rendering of the subject’s psychology, but also for his extraordinary virtuosity in the rendering of fabrics, particularly the black lace of the superb mantilla that, pinned on the head, falls to cover the shoulders and arms.

Excerpt of the expertise by prof. Fernando Mazzocca