Portrait of a Young Woman

This young woman's portrait has spent four centuries changing hands on paper. It was recorded in the Uffizi's famous Tribuna as early as 1605, then under the name of Rosso Fiorentino. In 1891 a leading connoisseur reassigned it to Franciabigio, and the museum kept that label for decades. Others argued it was an early work by Rosso after all. More recently the name attached to it is Giovanni di Lorenzo Larciani, a Florentine long known only as the Master of the Kress Landscapes until documents gave that anonymous hand a real name. All of them worked in Florence in the early 1500s, in the years around this picture's date, so the shifting attributions circle the same moment and the same city even as they can't settle on one painter.