Luigia Cattaneo-Gentile, also known as A Noblewoman from Genoa is a portrait painting by the Flemish Baroque painter Anthony van Dyck. It is on display in the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Strasbourg, France. Its inventory number is 200.[2]

Luigia Cattaneo-Gentile
A Noblewoman from Genoa
Artist	Anthony van Dyck
Year	circa 1622
Medium	oil painting on canvas
Movement	Baroque painting Portrait painting
Subject	Portrait of an elderly woman from an aristocratic Northern Italian family
Dimensions	147 cm × 112 cm (58 in × 44 in)[1]
Location	Musée des Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg
Accession	1890

The portrait was most likely painted in 1622, during Van Dyck's lengthy stay in Genoa, where he became the official portraitist of the members of the Genoese aristocracy. Luigia Cattaneo-Gentile was bought from the Durazzo family by Wilhelm von Bode in 1890 and was long thought to represent a marchesa from the House of Durazzo. The identification with the House of Cattaneo-Gentile instead, while already hypothesized in 1890, was only confirmed in 1986 by the Van Dyck specialist, Susan J. Barnes.[1]

From 1929 to 1965, the painting was attributed to Peter Paul Rubens, which was testament to its superior pictorial qualities, until the Rubens specialist Justus Müller-Hofstede determined that it was definitely an early masterpiece by a young Anthony van Dyck.[1][2]

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• Portrait d’une noble Génoise, Luigia Cattaneo-Gentile, presentation on the museum's website