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Painting by Leonardo da Vinci

This article is about the portrait by Leonardo da Vinci. For its subject, see Ginevra de' Benci (aristocrat).

Ginevra de' Benci is a portrait painting by Leonardo da Vinci of the 15th-century Florentine aristocrat Ginevra de' Benci (born c. 1458).

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It was acquired by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. US from Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein in February 1967 for a record price for a painting of between $5 and $6 million.^[1] It is the only painting by Leonardo on public view in the Americas.^[2]

Subject

Ginevra de' Benci, a well-known young Florentine woman, is universally considered to be the portrait's sitter.

Leonardo painted the portrait in Florence between 1474 and 1478, possibly to commemorate Ginevra's marriage to Luigi di Bernardo Niccolini at the age of 16. More likely, it commemorates the engagement. Commonly, contemporary portraits of females were commissioned for