title: Portrait of Matilde Juva Branca
text: # Portrait of Matilde Juva Branca
  
  Portrait of Matilde Juva Branca is an 1851 oil-on-canvas painting by the Italian artist Francesco Hayez, now in the Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Milan, to which it was given in 1893 by Carlo Weber.
  
  The sitter, born Matilde Branca into a family of musicians, became a singer, and took the name Matilde Juva Branca after marriage.
  
  