Battaina Balbi and her sons, Giacomo Durazzo and Carlo Emanuele Durazzo, Portrait of Battina Balbi, the daughter of Gerolamo Balbi. She sits looking directly at the viewer. Her two sons stand at her feet. One son dressed in a black gown holds a rose in his hand and gazes up towards his mother, while the other son dressed in blue sets his eyes on something outside of the picture plane, looking almost in a dreamlike state.

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Identifier: spc-mss0088-s36-i0829

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