Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), Portrait of Maria Serra Pallavicino, 1606. Oil on canvas, cm 241 x 140 cm. Private Collection. Another Rubens portrait, of another Genoese lady, from the same year as the one of Marchesa Brigida Spinola-Doria, 1606. The sitter is Maria Serra Pallavicino, wife of Nicolò Pallavicino, who was host to Vincenzo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, in that year. Rubens was on the Duke’s paylist, and the portrait was probably a present.
