Comme sa mère, craignant quelque folie de sa part, ne laissait que peu d’argent à sa disposition, Anetta était allée offrir une magnifique bague en diamants, cadeau de son père, au célèbre Hayez, alors à Parme pour les salons du palais Crescenzi, et lui demander le portrait de M. del Dongo ; mais elle voulut que ce portrait fût vêtu simplement de noir, et non point en habit de prêtre.
Since her mother, afraid of her doing something foolish, left only a little money at her disposal, Annetta had gone and offered a magnificent diamond ring, a gift from her father, to the famous Hayez, then at Parma decorating the drawing-rooms of the palazzo Crescenzi, and had asked him to paint the portrait of Signor del Dongo; but she wished that in this portrait he should simply be dressed in black, and not in the priestly habit.