Portrait Renaissance d’une jeune fille pâle dans un jardin en ruine

This is a formal, meticulously crafted, full-length Renaissance portrait of a woman in the Renaissance style, in three-quarter view. The composition uses traditional portrait techniques. A young girl of royal descent, tall, slender, graceful and thin for her age, with a delicately shaped, narrow nose. Her face is narrow, pale, with shadows under her eyes, and her eyes are red. Her white hands show pointed black nails. She sits on the edge of a ruined fountain basin in the abandoned garden of a Renaissance castle, weaving a wreath of dark blue flowers. Her long, unkempt black hair is worn partly in a halo braid, partly undone, which falls down her shoulders and back. On her forehead she wears a wreath of dark blue-purple belladonna flowers. Her outfit is an Italian Renaissance-style blue-black velvet overdress with long, slit, wide sleeves, a long, floor-length skirt and embroidered hem. Underneath the overdress, in the wide neckline, a red silk brocade dress is visible. The edges of the dress are decorated with a dark purple silk ribbon decorated with black embroidery in the French Renaissance style. The background is a French Renaissance-era, somewhat fairytale-like castle, an abandoned ruined French Renaissance garden, the architectural elements and statues of which are ornately carved in the Renaissance style, made of ivory and white marble, with worn gold decorations. The garden is covered with the dark blue flower of the belladonna flower, from which blue-purple smoke billows.