Lot Essay
We are grateful to Dottoressa Francesca Baldassari for pointing out (written communication 27 April 1999) that the prototype for the present picture is in the collection of the late Piero Bigongiari, Florence (M. Gregori, 'A Cross-Section of Florentine Seicento Painting. The Piero Bigongiari Collection', Apollo, no. 151, September 1974, p. 228, fig. 30).