LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on poplar panel

Measurements:

22.01 in. (55.90 cm.) (height) by 17.13 in. (43.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

inscribed on the letter ‘Domi[n]o petro burla/machio In Lucha’

Literature:

Works of Art in the Collection of Viscount Rothermere, ed. P.G. Konody, [privately printed], 1932, pl. 5.T. Borenius, A Tuscan Portrait, The Burlington Magazine, LXI, 1932, pp. 83-4, pl. 5.J. Pope-Hennessy, 'Zacchia Il Vecchio and Lorenzo Zacchia', The Burlington Magazine, LXXII, 1938, p. 223.

Provenance:

Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere (1868-1940), Mereworth Castle, Kent, by 1932; Christie's, 2 August 1946, lot 44 as Lorenzo Zacchia (735 gns. to the following)John Seymour Berry, 2nd Viscount Camrose (1909-1995); (†), Christie’s, London, 3 December 1997, lot 64 (£36,700).