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Vincenzo Leonardi (active 1621-46)
Lot 133

Vincenzo Leonardi (active 1621-46)

Two Citrus Medica

Closed7 July 1998

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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.

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

Specialist note

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).