Perugini’s portrait of his wife Kate shows her wearing a sumptuous green dress over a white blouse, facing to the right. She stands in a richly decorated room, with a stone dado and panels of scagliola, with a relief sculpture on the left. The antiquarian style of dress adopted and the splendor of the setting suggest that Kate is here being shown in an historical or literary role. [https://largesizepaintings.blogspot.nl/search?updated-max=2018-02-04T21:08:00+01:00&max-results=20]