FRANCESCO DE’ ROSSI, CALLED FRANCESCO SALVIATI (FLORENCE 1510-1563 ROME)

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Lot 9 | FRANCESCO DE’ ROSSI, CALLED FRANCESCO SALVIATI (FLORENCE 1510-1563 ROME)
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FRANCESCO DE’ ROSSI, CALLED FRANCESCO SALVIATI (FLORENCE 1510-1563 ROME)

A nude man in profile to the left (recto); A nude youth seen from the back, pointing upwards (verso)

with inscriptions ‘Michel’ angelo Buonaroti’ (verso, lower right)

black chalk, pen and brown ink, watermark ladder in a shield surmounted by a star, top corners cut

16 5⁄8 x 10 3⁄8 in. (43 x 27.8 cm)





Provenance

Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680), London (L. 2092).

Anonymous sale (‘a Lady resident abroad’); Sotheby’s, London, 28 October 1936, lot 24 (as Michelangelo); where acquired by

Walter Gernsheim (1909-2006), Munich, United Kingdom and Switzerland.

with Colnaghi, London (Old Master Drawings, 1955, no. 20, as Baccio Bandinelli).

with Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, New York.

Gerald Bronfman (1911-1986) and Marjorie Bronfman, née Schechter (1917-2012), Montreal; by descent to

Corinne Bronfman (1947-2022), Washington DC; by descent to the present owners.



Literature

D. McTavish, ‘Review. Francesco Salviati o la Bella Maniera (Exhibition Catalogue) by Catherine Monbeig Goguel’, Master Drawings, XXXVIII, no. 1, Spring 2000, p. 67, ill.

C. Monbeig Goguel, ‘Francesco Salviati et La Bella Maniera quelques points à revoir interprétation, chronologie, attributions’, in Francesco Salviati et La Bella Maniera. Actes des colloques de Rome et de Paris (1998), Rome, pp. 54-55.



Exhibited

Iowa City, University of Iowa, Drawing and the Human Figure, 1400-1964, 1964, no. 12, ill. (as Bandinelli; catalogue by W. Tomasini).

Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and the Renaissance in Florence, 2005, no. 118, ill. (entry by D. McTavish).
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