Portrait of Catherine Cornaro is an oil-on-wood painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Gentile Bellini, created c. 1500.
[1] This is one of the few surviving portraits of the Venetian patrician and queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, wife of King James II.
The second portrait is held in the Avogadro collection and was Catherine's wedding gift to one of her court ladies.
The third known image of Catherine, also by Bellini, is visible in his painting Miracle of the Cross at the Bridge of S. Lorenzo, from 1500, kneeling in the company of her manor house.
The Queen is portrayed in the same headdress with a light, transparent veil, behind which viewers can see a tired and mature woman.