Francesco dei Rossi, called Salviati (1510-1563)

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Francesco dei Rossi, called Salviati (1510-1563)

Head of Hercules (?), after the Antique (recto); A Hand (verso)
numbered '9', red chalk, the lower right corner made up
258 x 210mm.

Provenance

Sir Peter Lely (L. 2902)
Anon. sale, Christie's, 1 July 1986, lot 43, illustrated ((32,400)

Literature

C. Bambach Cappel, review of The Uffizi's Sixteenth-Century Drawings in Detroit and some Tuscan Drawings in Philadelphia, Master Drawings, 1990, XXVIII, fig. 4 (as attributed to Salviati)
L. Mortari, Francesco Salviati, Rome, 1992, no. 303, illustrated

Lot Essay

Presumably copied from an antique sculpture of the Farnese Hercules type. Carmen Bambach Cappel dates the drawing between 1535 and 1539, and points out that Salviati may have been inspired by Bandinelli's sculpture of Hercules and Cacus which had been placed in the Piazza della Signoria in 1534. Professor Alessandro Nova has kindly confirmed the attribution

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