Joseph and Potifar's wife

Details

V. Bianchini (active late 19th Century) after Giovanni Bilivert
Joseph and Potifar's wife
signed, inscribed and dated and with the seal of the Uffizi (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
120.1 x 140.4 cm.

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Lot Essay

The prototype, signed and dated 1619, is in the Palazzo Pitti, Florence, inv. no. 1585, on loan from the Uffizi; it was commissioned by Cardinal Carlo de' Medici for his residence, the Casino di San Marco, Florence.

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