Santi di Tito (1536-1603)
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Santi di Tito (1536-1603)

细节
Santi di Tito (1536-1603)

Group Portrait of a Knight of Santo Stefano,seated full length, in black costume and holding a letter, with his wife, standing in a black dress, his daughter, standing in a red dress, holding a doll and a jewel, and his mother-in-law, standing in a black dress and a white headscarf, in a palatial Renaissance interior

with indistinct inventory numbers '36H3' and '354'
on panel

86 x 57¼in. (218.5 x 145.5cm.)

In an Italian 17th Century reverse profile frame, gilded and carved with husks
来源
Anon. Sale, Christie's, 4 July 1986, lot 81.

拍品专文

The Order of Santo Stefano was founded by Cosimo I de' Medici, Duke of Florence, in 1561. The knight in the present picture bears a ressemblance to Pietro di Cosimo I de' Medici as portrayed by Santi di Tito in a painting in the Uffizi (Catalogo Generale, Florence, 1979, p. 688, no. Ic 584, illustrated). Both paintings have architectural backgrounds, recalling the artist's secondary career as an architect