LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas, oval

Measurements:

36.22 in. (92.00 cm.) (height) by 27.56 in. (70.00 cm.) (width)

Literature:

D. Cordellier (ed.), Primatice, maître de Fontainebleau, exhibition catalogue, Paris 2004, p. 349 under cat. no. 183, and note 6 (where Sylvie Béguin's attribution to Nicolò dell'Abate based on a Primaticcio design is reported);. S. Béguin in S. Béguin and F. Piccinini (eds.), Nicolò dell'Abate, storie dipinte nella pittura del Cinquecento tra Modena e Fontainebleau, exhibition catalogue, Milan 2005, p. 457, under cat. no. 251 (as Nicolò dell'Abate and collaborator);. N. Forti Grazzini, "Pour Nicolò dell’Abate en France: la Sophonisbe retrouvée,"in Peindre en France à la Renaissance II. Fontainebleau et son rayonnement, Milan 2012, pp. 49-61, reproduced plates 11 and 12 (as an artist very close to Nicolò dell'Abate with Nicolò's possible collaboration; the subject is identified as Sophonisba).

Provenance:

Conte Bassi collection;. His sale, Milan, Genolini, 7-9 November 1898, lot 131 (as Abate Francesco Primaticcio).