Francesco dei Rossi, called Salviati (1510-1563)

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Francesco dei Rossi, called Salviati (1510-1563)

Design for a Salver with Scorpio surrounded by Neptune on his Chariot and Dolphins

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white (partly oxidized), on light brown paper, the corners cut
276 x 276mm.

Provenance

Pseudo-Crozat (L. 474)
An 18th Century sale reference 'Lot 901' in red chalk (not Sir Joshua Reynolds) on the mount

Lot Essay

A related study for a salver with Neptune and Hippocamps is at Windsor, A.E. Popham and J. Wilde, The Italian Drawings of the XV and XVI Centuries in the Collection of His Majesty the King at Windsor Castle, London, 1949, no. 893, fig. 170. Designs of salvers with Neptune are in the Victoria and Albert Museum (P. Ward-Jackson, Italian Drawings, Volume One 14th-16th century, London, 1979, no. 286, illustrated) and formerly in the Ellesmere Collection, Sotheby's, 5 December 1972, lot 87, illustrated

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