VINCENZO LEONARDI (ROME 1589/1590-1646)

Lot 23
04.07.2023 14:30UTC +00:00
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ID 991589
Lot 23 | VINCENZO LEONARDI (ROME 1589/1590-1646)
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£ 15 000 – 25 000
VINCENZO LEONARDI (ROME 1589/1590-1646)

Two unusual citron-lemons (Citrus limonimedica)

with numbers ‘78’ (upper right) and ‘79’ (lower right)

black chalk, watercolour and bodycolour, heightened with white and gum arabic, on two sheets cut and rejoined

37.4 x 14.1 cm (14 3/4 x 5 1/2 in.)





Provenance

Cassiano dal Pozzo (1588-1657), Rome; by descent to his brother,

Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo (1606-1689); by descent to his grandson, from whom acquired by

Pope Clement XI (1649-1721), Rome; from whom acquired by his nephew in 1714,

Cardinal Alessandro Albani (1692-1779), Rome; from whom acquired in 1762 by

King George III (1738-1820); since 1823 in the Royal Library, at Windsor Castle, until sold from the Dal Pozzo collection by the Royal Librarian, Sir John Fortescue (1859-1933) to

Jacob Mendelson (died 1970), London; where acquired in the late 1930s by

James R. Herbert Boone (1899-1983), New York; Sotheby’s, New York, 16-17 September 1988, lot 147.



Literature

D. Freedberg, ‘Ferrari on the classifications of oranges and lemons’, in Documentary culture, Florence and Rome, 1992, p. 300.

D. Freedberg, ‘Ferrari and the pregnant lemons of Pietrasanta’, in Il giardino delle Esperidi. Gli agrumi nella storia, nella letteratura e nell’arte, Florence, 1996.

D. Freedberg and E. Baldini, The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo. A Catalogue Raisonné. Series B. Natural History. Part One. Citrus Fruit, London, 1997, no. 91, ill.



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