Francesco dei Rossi, il Salviati (1510-1563)

An Allegory of the Triumph of Venus, after Bronzino

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Francesco dei Rossi, il Salviati (1510-1563)
Salviati, F.
An Allegory of the Triumph of Venus, after Bronzino
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash
4 x 3.7/8 in. (114 x 100 mm.)

來源

Earl Spencer (L. 1530).
Sir Thomas Lawrence (L. 2445).
F. Abbott (L. 970).

拍品專文

The picture copied by Salviati is probably that mentioned by Giorgio Vasari in Of the Academicians of Design, Painters, Sculptors, and Architects and of their works, and first of Bronzino: 'And he painted a picture of singular beauty that was sent to King Francis in France, wherein was a nude Venus, with a Cupid who was kissing her, and Pleasure on one side with Play and other Loves, and on the other side Fraud and Jealousy', Life of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects, London, 1996, p. 872. The picture is now in the National Gallery, London.
The picture was painted circa 1540-5, during the period Salviati worked alongside Bronzino on a set of tapestries depicting the story of Joseph for the Sala del Consiglio de'Dugento, commissioned by Cosimo de'Medici. A preparatory drawing for the tapestry is close in handling to this drawing, L. Mortari, Francesco Salviati, Rome, 1992, no. 321, illustrated.
The drawing may also have been done in France at about 1554, when Salviati stayed there for twenty months, invited by King Franois I, G. Vasari, op. cit., pp. 573-4.