Lot Essay
For the attribution, and other works by the artist, see A. Pinelli, Pier Francesco di Jacopo Foschi, in the Gazette des Beaux Arts, 1967, LXIX, pp. 87-108
THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR
PIER FRANCESCO DI JACOPO FOSCHI* (1502-1567)
Details
PIER FRANCESCO DI JACOPO FOSCHI* (1502-1567)
Portrait of a Lady, seated half length, wearing a black coat with a white veil, holding a book
oil on panel
25 x 20½in. (63.5 x 52.1cm.)
Portrait of a Lady, seated half length, wearing a black coat with a white veil, holding a book
oil on panel
25 x 20½in. (63.5 x 52.1cm.)
Provenance
possibly Ricardi Palace, Florence (according to an old label on the reverse)
Pierre Le Brun, 1811
I.R. Trimble
Pierre Le Brun, 1811
I.R. Trimble
Literature
S.J. Freedberg, Andrea del Sarto, 1963, p. 243, under 'Untraceable Attributed Paintings', as "The Artist's Mother"