LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel

Measurements:

36.61 in. (93.00 cm.) (height) by 28.35 in. (72.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

inscribed centre left under the window: MNHMOΣYNON MEI SODALIS ALEXANDRI ALLORII ANN, MDLXXX

Exhibited:

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum,. Italiaansch Kinst in Nederlandsch Bezit, 1 July - 1 October 1934, no. 1 (lent by Mevr. M. van Gelder

Literature:

Stedelijk Museum,. Italiaansch Kinst in Nederlandsch Bezit, exh. cat., Amsterdam 1934, p. 42, cat. no. 1 (as Alessandro Allori,. Portrait of a humanist );. R. van Marle, 'La pittura all'esposizione d'arte antica italiana di Amsterdam'. , in Bollettino d'arte , III, 1935, p. 312 (as Allori,. Portrait of a humanist );. M.P. Mannini. et al. , in. Il paesaggio nella pittura fra Cinque e Seicento a Firenze , Poggibonsi 1980, pp. 95 and 97, note 9, reproduced p. 98 (as Workshop of Allori,. Portrait of a historian );. S. Lecchini Giovannoni,. Alessandro Allori , Turin 1991, pp. 307-08, cat. no. 197, reproduced pl. 431 (proposing an attribution to Stradanus);. A. Baroni Vannucci,. Jan van der Straet detto Giovanni Stradano, Flandrus pictor et inventor , Milan 1997, p. 154, cat. no. 46, reproduced

Provenance:

Mevr. M. van Gelder, Brussels, by 1934;. Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 14 May 1971, lot 18 (as Alessandro Allori) for £950 to O. Poggi;. With Galleria Vangelisti, Lucca, by 1972