Signed (right, in brown): Gigola / F
Collis P. Huntington, New York (by 1897–d. 1900; life interest to his widow, Arabella D. Huntington, later [from 1913] Mrs. Henry E. Huntington, 1900–d. 1924; life interest to their son, Archer Milton Huntington, 1924–terminated in 1926)
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "European Miniatures in The Metropolitan Museum of Art," November 5, 1996–January 5, 1997, no. 206.
A Catalogue of Miniatures in the Collection of Collis P. Huntington. [New York], 1897, unpaginated, ill., as a portrait of Marie Pauline Bonaparte, Princess Borghese.
Graham Reynolds with the assistance of Katharine Baetjer. European Miniatures in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1996, pp. 164, 166, no. 206, colorpl. 206 and ill. p. 165.
Bernardo Falconi in Giambattista Gigola e il ritratto in miniatura a Brescia tra Settecento e Ottocento. Milan, 2001, p. 126, no. 118, ill., based on comparison with two confirmed portraits by Gigola of Francesca Ghirardi Lechi (Civici Musei d'Arte e Storia, Brescia, and an unknown location), identifies this miniature as a likeness of the Milanese noblewoman.
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