LOT DETAILS

Materials:

pen and brown ink and wash, over traces of black chalk

Measurements:

13.58 in. (34.50 cm.) (height) by 13.46 in. (34.20 cm.) (width)

Markings:

bears attribution on the old mount in pen and brown ink: Mantuano

Exhibited:

Manchester, City Art Gallery,. Between Renaissance and Baroque, 1965, no. 390 (as Giorgio Vasari);. Edinburgh, The Merchants' Hall,. Italian 16th-Century Drawings from British Private Collections , 1969, p. 39, reproduced pl. 53 .

Literature:

G. Thiem, 'Vasaris Entwürfe für die Gemälde in der Sala Grande des Palazzo Vecchio zu Florenz',. Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, XXIII, 1960, p. 107 ff., reproduced (as Vasari);. W. Vitzthum, Reviews, 'Paola Barocchi:. Vasari Pittore; Complementi al Vasari Pittore; Mostra di disegni del Vasari', Master Drawings, vol. III, no. 1, 1965, p. 55;. S. Béguin, Reviews, 'Between Renaissance and Baroque',. Master Drawings, 1966, vol. IV, no. 1, p. 57;. E. Pillsbury, 'The Sala Grande drawings by Vasari and his workshop some documents and new attributions',. Master Drawings, XIV, 1976, p. 133;. A. Cecchi, in A. Allegri and A. Cecchi,. Palazzo Vecchio e i Medici. Guida Storica, Florence 1980, no. 54 (25);. A. Baroni Vannucci,. Jan Van der Straet detto Giovanni Stradano, Milan 1997, p. 193, no. 99, reproduced fig. 99;. F. Härb,. The Drawings of Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574), Rome 2015, p. 439, and note 726

Provenance:

Sale, London, Pall Mall, Foster's Auction Rooms, 7 July 1937, (pencil inscription on the old backing:. bought at Foster's Auction Rooms,/Pall Mall/ 7July 1937/as by Mantovano/H.D. Gronau );. Hans Dietrich Gronau (1904-1951) (bears his mark, not in Lugt, on the front and the back of the old mount),. Mrs. H.D. Gronau (see exhib. label on the. verso from the Manchester City Art Gallery) .