It is signed "TICI/ANVS F." The portrait features Laura Dianti, mistress, and later wife of the Duke of Ferrara Alfonso I d'Este and an African page.

[4] The painting depicts a woman with brown hair wearing an ornate headpiece made of cloth and jewels, while her earrings were in the shape of a teardrop pearl.

Her dress is a sweeping satin-like blue adorned with delicate gold embellishments and white layered sleeves of a chemise that drapes through to her wrist.

[2] The background of the painting is a warm darkness that has a soft illumination around the figures, but does not portray any specific location.

[5] It was thought that a total of 6 copies survived around the world and it was possible that the original could have been swapped out at any time during its many exchanges through hands.

[2] Although it would have been allowed by the Church, there was no written record at the time that Duke of Ferrara took Laura as his third wife after the death of his second, Lucrezia Borgia.

The estate argued that Laura's clothes suggested lustful implications that were not compatible with other portraits of wives within the family.

[2] She wears a hat badge with a figure in red, which historian Paul Kaplan states is a color often associated with St. Jerome.

Art historian Jane Fair Bestor believes that it is possible that the Duke of Ferrara gave both names "Laura" and "Eustochia" to the woman upon the beginning of their relationship.

Eustochia would be in reference to Eustochium, a follower of St. Jerome and addressee of a famed letter penned by him about virginity.

At the time of their meeting, she was the lover of the Duke of Ferrara, Alfonso I d'Este, and although considered lower-class, she gained the respect of the people around her and was a member of the Ferrarese court.