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The oil-on-canvas portrait is by Candido Portinari, and is the only portrait for which the wife of Argentine ruler Juan Peron is known to have sat.

They join Beatrice Portinari and Francesca da Rimini, the only two historical women from the "Divine Comedy" who had acceptable entries on Wikipedia prior to our work.

In Hans Memling’s famous dual portraits of Tommaso and Maria Portinari — Florentines living in the artist’s home city of Bruges — the two approaches merge.

Dec 2004, Sao Paolo - In Brazil thieves stole Picasso’s 1904 work “Portrait of Suzanne Bloch,” worth up to $50 million, and local painter Candido Portinari’s 1939 “The Coffee Worker,” valued at about $5.5 million, from Sao Paulo’s leading art museum.

Portinari faces multiple misdemeanor and felony-level charges for the incident.