Italian School, late 17th - early 18th Century Portrait of Petrarch's Laura, in profile, smelling a carnation and touching an apple oil on canvas, oval, in a late 18th century gilded frame 61 x 53cm (24 x 21in) Provenance: Mawley Hall, Shropshire Other Notes: The present portrait is a later copy after a presumably lost 14th Century portrait of Laura de Noves (1310–1348), wife of Count Hugues de Sade. An engraving, in reverse, of the supposed, or lost, original is illustrated in 'Petrarcha redivivus' by Giacomo Filippo Tomasini, pub. 1635. Another version of this composition is in the collection of the National Trust at Ickworth House, Suffolk. Moulton 691 inventory no. to the reverse