LOT DETAILS
Materials:
oil on panel
Size Notes:
61.5 x 48.8 cm.
Description:
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Exhibited:
London, Trinity Fine Arts, 23 June-9 July 2004, no. 1.New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012-2013, on loan.
Literature:
J. Meyer, Allgemeines Knstler-Lexicon, I, Leipzig, 1872, p. 506.C. Gamba, 'A proposito di Alessandro Allori e di un suo ritratto', Dalla Rivista del Reale Istituto d'archeologia e storia dell'arte, I, 1929, pp. 274-275, fig. 9, as dated 1590.A. Venturi, 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.S.L. Giovannoni, Alessandro Allori, Turin, 1991, pp. p. 274, under no. 116; 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, as 'Bronzino'. Giuseppe Volpi, Conte Volpi di Misurata (1877-1947), Rome, by 1929, and by descent to,Giovanni Volpi, Conte Volpi di Misurata; his sale, Laurin & Gillaux, Palazzo Volpi, Rome, 11 October 1972, lot 109, as 'Attributed to Alessandri Allori'. with Trinity Fine Art, London, 2004, where acquired by a private collector, and by whom sold,[Property Sold to Benefit the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine]; Christie's, New York, 28 January 2014, lot 173, where acquired by the present owner.