La velata

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La velata
Artist Raphael
Year 1514–1515
Type Oil on canvas
Dimensions 82 cm × 60.5 cm (32 in × 23.8 in)
Location Palatine Gallery, Palazzo Pitti, Florence

La velata, or La donna velata ("The woman with the veil"), is one of the most famous portraits by the Italian Renaissance painter Raphael.[citation needed]

The subject of the painting appears in another portrait, La Fornarina, and is traditionally identified as the fornarina (bakeress) Margherita Luti, Raphael's Roman mistress.

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