Self-portrait, bust-length

Details

Giovanni Battista Salvi, il Sassoferrato (1609-1685)
Self-portrait, bust-length
inscribed and dated '1668 Di mia età ani 60 -' (verso)
red chalk
185 x 138 mm.

Provenance

with Armando Neerman, 1972, no. 29.

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Lot Essay

A painted self-portrait by Sassoferrato is in the Uffizi, Florence (F. Macé De Lépinay, Giovanni Battista Salvi, il Sassoferrato, exhib. cat., Sassoferrato, 1990, no. 23) executed between 1654 and 1660. The attribution was kindly confimed by Nicholas Turner.

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