LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on silvered copper

Measurements:

8.86 in. (22.50 cm.) (height) by 6.50 in. (16.50 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

faintly signed, located, and inscribed lower left: ALEXANDER ALLORIVS / FLO... BRONZINI / FACIEBAT 1

Exhibited:

Florence, Palazzo Strozzi; Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, T. he Medici, Michelangelo, and the art of late Renaissance Florence , 9 November 2002 - 8 June 2003, no. 2;. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, on loan, 5 September - 6 December 2006

Literature:

S.L. Giovannoni, Ferdinando I dei Medici e Cristina di Lorena: immagini del potere e della devozione. Osservazioni su alcuni dipinti inediti. , in. Arte musica spettacolo: Annali del Dipartimento di Storia delle Arti e dello Spettacolo, 2001, pp. 189-201;. M. Chiarini, A. Darr and C. Giannini,. The Medici, Michelangelo, and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence , New Haven 2002, p. 138, cat. no. 2, reproduced

Provenance:

With Simon Dickinson, London;. From whom acquired by the present collector, 1996