Vincenzo Leonardi (active 1621-46)

Two Citrus Medica

Details

Vincenzo Leonardi (active 1621-46)
Two Citrus Medica
numbered '58' and '59'
black chalk, watercolour, bodycolour on two attached pieces of paper
408 x 197 mm.

Provenance

Cassiano dal Pozzo, by descent to
Cosimo Antonio dal Pozzo.
Pope Clement XI.
Cardinal Alessandro Albani.
King George III.
With Mendelson.

Literature

D. Freedberg and D. Baldini, The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo, Series B-Part one, Citrus Fruit, London, 1997, nos. 2-3, illustrated.

Engraved

By G.B. Ferrari for Hesperides Sive De Malorum Aureorum Cultura et Usu Libri Quattuor, Rome, 1646, p. 67.

Lot Essay

The drawing was commissioned by Cassiano dal Pozzo for his Museo Cartaceo and was engraved for it by G.B. Ferrari. Other references to the same fruit are in a painting by Bartolomeo Bimbi in the Museo Botanico of the University of Florence (C. 612).

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