JACOPO DA PONTORMO (PONTORMO, NEAR EMPOLI 1494-1556 FLORENCE) - photo 1
JACOPO DA PONTORMO (PONTORMO, NEAR EMPOLI 1494-1556 FLORENCE) - photo 2
JACOPO DA PONTORMO (PONTORMO, NEAR EMPOLI 1494-1556 FLORENCE) - photo 3

JACOPO DA PONTORMO (PONTORMO, NEAR EMPOLI 1494-1556 FLORENCE)

Lot 26
31.01.2024 10:00UTC -05:00
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AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1126216
Lot 26 | JACOPO DA PONTORMO (PONTORMO, NEAR EMPOLI 1494-1556 FLORENCE)
Estimate value
$ 200 000 – 300 000
JACOPO DA PONTORMO (PONTORMO, NEAR EMPOLI 1494-1556 FLORENCE)

A Sybil

oil on panel

28 1⁄8 x 20 5⁄8 in. (71.5 x 52.4 cm.)





Provenance

Charles Alexander Loeser (1864–1928), Villa Torri Gattaia, Florence, by whom placed on deposit at the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence.

with Luigi Grassi, where acquired in 1978 by the following,

with French & Company, New York.



Literature

F.M. Clapp, Jacopo Carucci da Pontormo: His Life and Work, New Haven, 1916, p. 202, referring to a fleeting viewing of the picture 'some years ago before I felt that I could say definitively whether the attribution to Pontormo seemed to me justified'.

L. Berti, Mostra del Pontormo e del primo manierismo fiorentino , 2nd edition, Florence, 1956, p. 17, as possibly a copy of an original.

C. Gamba, Contribute alla conoscenza del Pontormo, Florence, 1956, p. 10, illustrated fig. 9.

D. Sanminiatelli, 'The Pontormo Exhibition in Florence', Burlington Magazine, XCVIII, 1956, p. 242, as 'likely a copy from a lost Pontormo original'.

B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Florentine School, London, 1963, I, p. 180.

J. Cox Rearick, The Drawings of Pontormo. A Catalogue Raisonné with Notes on the Paintings, Cambridge, 1964, p. 161 note 3, as 'must reflect a lost original'.

L. Berti, Pontormo, Florence, 1964, pp. XXXIV-XXV, illustrated, as 'uncertain whether it is autograph or more likely a copy'.

K.W. Forster, 'Probleme um Pontormos Porträtmalerei (I)', Pantheon, XXII, 1965, pp. 218-221, fig. 1, as 'Rosso (?)'.

L. Berti, L’opera completa del Pontormo, Milan, 1973, pp. 94-95, no. 60, illustrated, as 'probably a copy, rather than autograph, nonetheless attesting an invention certainly by Pontormo’.

S. Meloni Trkulja, ‘Carucci, Jacopo detto il Pontormo’, in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Rome 1977, XX, p. 812.

L. Berti, Palazzo Vecchio: committenza e collezionismo medicei, Milan, 1980, p. 171, no. 393, fig. 393.

P. Costamagna, Pontormo, Milan, 1994, p. 123, no. 18, illustrated.



Exhibited

Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, Mostra del Pontormo e del primo manierismo fiorentino, 1956, no. 27, as difficult to judge in its current state as to whether it might be autograph.

Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, Palazzo Vecchio: committenza e collezionismo medicei, 1980, no. 393.
Artist:Jacopo da Pontormo (1494 - 1557)
Applied technique:Oil on panel
Art style:Renaissance
Genre:Portrait
Place of origin:Italy
Auction house category:Paintings
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