Only about 30 paintings survive by the great Venetian portraitist Bartolomeo Veneto, a contemporary of Titian, Veronese, and other masters of High Renaissance. This portrait, painted a year before the artist's death, shows the sitter standing in front of a red curtain. She is dressed in the height of fashion with a headpiece of human hair decorated with blue and gold ribbon, suggesting she was a lady of considerable status. The artist signed and dated the work on the cartellino, or tag, attached to the dark red curtain.