Irene Parenti Duclos (1754–1795)

• Her academic nickname is Lincasta Ericinia.
• Was an Italian painter and poet.
• Irene Parenti Duclos was the daughter of Tuscan painter Giuseppe Parenti.
• The first documented notice of Irene Parenti Duclos' painting activity is her 1773 petition to make painted replicas of works in Florence's Uffizi Gallery.
• Between 1773 and 1793, Duclos executed thirty-nine oil copies at the Uffizi.
• A member of the art academies of Rome and Bologna as well as an "Accademico Professore" in Florence’s Accademia del Disegno since 1783.
• Duclos was additionally recognized for her poetic talents with an induction into the literary circle of the Accademia degli Arcadi.
• Irene Parenti Duclos’ Copy of Andrea del Sarto’s Madonna del Sacco, displayed in the gypsoteque of the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence.
• The displayed painting is a crop from:  Self Portrait by Irene Parenti Duclos, 1783.
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