LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel

Measurements:

24.21 in. (61.50 cm.) (height) by 19.21 in. (48.80 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated and inscribed 'NEL.A.M.D.99/ALESSANDRO BRONZINO/ALLORI DIPINGEVA' (lower center)

Exhibited:

London, Trinity Fine Arts, 23 June-9 July 2004, no. 1. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012-2013.

Literature:

J. Meyer, Allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon, Leipzig, 1872, I, p. 505. C. Gamba, 'A proposito di Alessandro Allori e di un suo ritratto', in Dalla Rivista del Reale Istituto d'archeologia e storia dell'arte, I, 1929, pp. 274-275, fig. 9, as dated 1590. A. Venturi, La Pittura del Cinquecento in Storia dell'arte italiana, VI, Milan, 1933, pp. 108-109, fig. 70. L. Berti, 'Note brevi su inediti toscani', Bollettino d'Arte, XXXVIII, no. 2, 1953, p. 280, as dated 1590. A Selection of Italian Drawings from North American Collections, exhibition catalogue, Montreal, p. 33. S. L. Giovannoni, Alessandro Allori, Turin, 1991, pp. 263, 274-275, no. 117; p. 289, under no. 152, as dated 1590.

Provenance:

Palazzo Borghese, Rome, by 1872; sale, Giacomini & Campobachi, Rome, 7 April 1892, lot 666. Giuseppe Volpi, 1st Count of Misurata (1877-1947), Rome, by 1929, and by descent to. Giovanni Colpi, Count of Misurata; his sale, Laurin & Gillaux, Palazzo Volpi, Rome, 11 October 1972, lot 109. with Trinity Fine Art, London, 2004, where acquired by the present owner.