LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on poplar panel

Measurements:

24.02 in. (61.00 cm.) (height) by 16.93 in. (43.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

inscribed with the sitter's identity along the upper edge: GIOVANNI DI TADDEO DI AGN. GADDI

Provenance:

Traditionally believed to have belonged to the Gaddi family in Florence, where it probably hung at Palazzo Gaddi in the 16th century and subsequently passed by descent in the Gaddi (and from 1607 the Pitti-Gaddi) family at Villa di Camerata, near Fiesole; Probably acquired directly from the above by Elia Volpi (1858-1938), in the late 19th or early 20th century in Florence; Private collection, Paris; Verburgt collection, The Hague, from circa 1920 (as Ridolfo Ghirlandaio); Acquired from the above by the father of a Dutch private collector, in whose collection the portrait remained until the mid-1980s, when purchased by the present owner.