Francesco Hayez
(1791 - 1882)
 

Francesco Hayez was an Italian painter. He is considered one of the leading artists of Romanticism in mid-19th-century Milan, and is renowned for his grand historical paintings, political allegories, and portraits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Hayez

Portrait of Carolina Zucchi (The Sick Woman) (Carolina in Bed)
1825
Oil on wood
49,4 x 60 cm
Galleria Civica di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Torino, Torino, Italy

The woman portrayed was Carolina Zucchi, Hayez’s model and student, with whom he also became sentimentally involved, forming an intense intimate relationship in around 1822.