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Portrait of a lady, half-length, in an embroidered dress with a lace ruff and bejewelled headpiece, with her son, in an interior
Details
Attributed to Gervasio Gatti (Active in Cremona, 1549 - 1631)
Portrait of a lady, half-length, in an embroidered dress with a lace ruff and bejewelled headpiece, with her son, in an interior
oil on copper (?), laid down on panel
35 ¾ x 29 ¼ in. (90.8 x 74.3 cm.)
Portrait of a lady, half-length, in an embroidered dress with a lace ruff and bejewelled headpiece, with her son, in an interior
oil on copper (?), laid down on panel
35 ¾ x 29 ¼ in. (90.8 x 74.3 cm.)
Provenance
Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey, by 1868; Christie's, London, 19 January 1951, lot 85 as ‘Bronzino, Portrait of Jeanne d’Albret, Queen of Navarre, and her son Henri, later Henri IV of France’ (70 gns. to Colonel A. Dower);
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 16 December 1977, lot 112, as 'Allori, Portrait of a Lady and her Son'.
Anonymous sale; Karl & Faber, Munich, 8 November 2013, lot 134, as 'Circle of Allori, Portrait of a Noble Florentine lady and her son (Bianca Cappello?)'.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 16 December 1977, lot 112, as 'Allori, Portrait of a Lady and her Son'.
Anonymous sale; Karl & Faber, Munich, 8 November 2013, lot 134, as 'Circle of Allori, Portrait of a Noble Florentine lady and her son (Bianca Cappello?)'.
Literature
G. Scharf, Catalogue of Pictures, Miniatures, Drawings and Busts at Woburn Abbey, London, 1868, no. XV, as 'Agnolo Bronzino, Jeanne D'Albret, daughter of the Queen of Navarre, and her son, afterwards Henry the Fourth of France'.
G. Scharf, Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures at Woburn Abbey, London, 1890, no. 15 as 'Bronzino'.
G. Scharf, Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures at Woburn Abbey, London, 1890, no. 15 as 'Bronzino'.
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