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Lady with an Ermine

painting by Leonardo da Vinci from around 1489–1490
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Lady with an Ermine
Leonardo da Vinci · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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Summary

Lady with an Ermine is a painting[1]. It ranks in the top 0.64% of painting entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (15,737 views/month, #38 of 5,957).[2]

Key Facts

  • Creator: Leonardo da Vinci[3]
  • Movement: High Renaissance[4]
  • Genre: portrait[5]
  • Depicts: Cecilia Gallerani[6], woman[7], Mustela erminea[8], Mustela putorius furo[9]
  • Made from material: oil paint[10], walnut panel[11], tempera[12], panel[13]
  • Collection: Czartoryski Museum[14]
  • Inventory number: MNK XII-209[15]
  • Location: Czartoryski Museum[16], National Museum in Kraków[17]
  • Commons category: Lady with an Ermine[18]
  • Catalog code: XIII[19]
  • Inception: January 1, 1490[20]
  • Main subject: Cecilia Gallerani[21]
  • Described at URL: https://zbiory.mnk.pl/en/catalog/157417[22], https://nicofranz.art/en/leonardo-da-vinci/lady-with-an-ermine[23], https://www.leonardodavinci.net/lady-with-an-ermine.jsp[24], https://zbiory.mnk.pl/pl/katalog/157417[25]
  • Depicts Iconclass notation: 61BB2(GALLERANI, Cecilia)[26], 25F23(ERMINE)[27], 31AA(+71)[28]
  • Title: Dama con l'ermelli[29], Lady with an Ermine[30]
  • Height: 54 cm[31]
  • Width: 39 cm[32]
  • Time period: High Renaissance[33]
  • Copyright status: public domain[34]

Why It Matters

Lady with an Ermine has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[35] It is known by 57 alternative names across languages and contexts.[36]

Related Entities

Czartoryski Museum Leonardo da Vinci National Museum in Kraków public domain

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . Make Lists, Not War. Retrieved . beckchris.wordpress.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . zbiory.mnk.pl. Retrieved . zbiory.mnk.pl. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wga.hu. wga.hu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . dhm.de. Retrieved . dhm.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . dhm.de. Retrieved . dhm.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . dhm.de. Retrieved . dhm.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . zbiory.mnk.pl. Retrieved . zbiory.mnk.pl. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . dhm.de. Retrieved . dhm.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . zbiory.mnk.pl. Retrieved . zbiory.mnk.pl. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . zbiory.mnk.pl. Retrieved . zbiory.mnk.pl. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . Make Lists, Not War. Retrieved . beckchris.wordpress.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [35] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [36] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 14w ago · Abraham · 2026-07-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Aliases → —
    Genre → portrait
    Wikidata description → painting by Leonardo da Vinci from around 1489–1490
    Location → Czartoryski Museum, National Museum in Kraków, Munich Central Collecting Point
    + 18 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Title: Dama z łasiczką"
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