Live Auction 5103Old Master Pictures
Lot 79THE PROPERTY OF A LADY OF TITLE

Francesco Maria Rondani (1490-1550)

Closed10 December 1993

Price Realised

GBP 155,500

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Francesco Maria Rondani (1490-1550)

Portrait of a Gentleman, half length, in a fur-trimmed white jacket and a plumed hat and holding a palm frond, a landscape seen through a casement beyond

inscribed 'HEC EST VIVA TVI DVLCIS VICTORIA AMÁTIS HIRVNDI DOCTA PICTA FIGVRA MANV QVÁ PRECOR VT SERVES NE QUID CORRVPERE POSSIT EXEGIT HOC ETIÁ NÓ SIMVLATVS AMOR'

on panel
23 1/8 x 18in. (58.8 x 45.7cm.)

Jeremiah Harman, Higham House; (+) Christie's, 18 May 1844 (= 2nd day), lot 81, 'Rondani - Portrait of a Gentleman, with a white dress and fur collar, and white cap and feather on his head, holding a palm branch in his hand. A complimentary verse is inscribed on a wall, near which, through an open window, a landscape is seen' (200 gns. to Farrer)
Henry, 3rd Marquis of Lansdowne (1780-1863), and by descent through Henry, 6th Marquis of Lansdowne to the present owner