Leonardo’s Portrait of a Woman: a portrait of Beatrice d’Este?

editorial reviewedThis contribution focus on the Portrait of a Woman, which, since the early 19th century, has been incorrectly designated as the Belle Ferronnière, especially on the identification of the sitter. It is plausible to consider that Leonardo painted Beatrice d’Este: sources and old derivations of the tableau – as the drawing which belonged to the collector Sebastiano Resta, today conserved in the Galleria degli Uffizi, and the large engraving, formerly attributed to Zoan Andrea – do not contradict such a hypothesis