Portrait of a Gentlewoman (1851)
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The stillness of the pose does not prevent the prosperous lady from expressing the lively, sober and elegant spirit of the social class to which she belongs. It is an active and wealthy Milanese class that comes down to us in the portraits of Mauro Conconi, Eliseo Sala, Giuseppe Molteni, Francesco Hayez etc., in a gallery of noble landowners and solid bourgeois that shows us the pre-Risorgimento high society . Mauro Conconi was one of the most talented and sought-after Milanese artists of this period, both as a portraitist (his portraits are in Brera and in the Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Milan), and in religious commissions and above all.