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ITALIAN SCHOOL, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Leopoldo di Cosimo II of Medici as a baby, lying full-length wrapped in gold and silver embroidered white silk drape with cut away border on a gold-embroidered gold drape, his head resting on a white silk cushion with similarly embroidered border; interior background

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ITALIAN SCHOOL, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Leopoldo di Cosimo II of Medici as a baby, lying full-length wrapped in gold and silver embroidered white silk drape with cut away border on a gold-embroidered gold drape, his head resting on a white silk cushion with similarly embroidered border; interior background
rectangular, 4 x 5 7/16 in. (102 x 136 mm.), ormolu frame with inner palmette border
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Lot Essay

Leopoldo di Cosimo II of Medici (1617-1675) was Governor of Siena 1636-1641 and 1643-1644, Cardinal in 1667 and received the purple in Rome in 1674.
This is after the painting by Tiberio Titi of 1617 in the Palazzo Pitti, illustrated in K. Langedijk, The Portraits of the Medici, Florence 1983, II, p. 1113, no. 68,19.

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