Portrait of Contessina Mattei, bust-length, in a black dress with a white chemisette, a white veil and gold net over her hair

细节

Attributed to Mirabello Cavalori ? 1535-1572 Florence
Portrait of Contessina Mattei, bust-length, in a black dress with a white chemisette, a white veil and gold net over her hair
carved inscription 'CONTESSINE-D.MATTEI-DE/UXORIS IMAGO' (on the reverse)
oil on panel
24½ x 17½ in. 62.2 x 44.5 cm.

来源

Agar Ellis collection.
The Duke of Westminster, Grosvenor House, by 1816, and thence by descent; Christie's, London, 4 July 1924, lot 46, as 'Andrea del Sarto', (340 gns. to Blake).
H. Arthur Steward; Christie's, London, 28 - 29 July 1927, lot 115, as 'Andrea del Sarto', (400 gns. to Dyson).
with Frost & Reed, London.

出版

A. Reumont, Andrea del Sarto, Leipzig, 1835, p. xxi, as not by Andrea del Sarto.
A.J.C. Hare, Walks in London, London, 1894, II, p. 77, (in the chapter on Grosvenor House), as 'Andrea del Sarto'.
J.A. Crowe, et al., A History of Painting in Italy: Umbria, Florence and Siena, London, 1914, VI, p. 200, as 'not by del Sarto but reminiscent of Allori.'.
S.J. Freedberg, Andrea del Sarto, Cambridge, 1963, I, p. 227, under 'attributed paintings', as 'surely of the late years of the sixteenth century in Florence'.

展览

London, The British Institution, 1816, no. 36.
London, The British Institution, 1834, no. 121.
London, The Royal Academy, Winter Exhibition, 1876, no. 135, as 'Andrea del Sarto'.
London, The New Gallery, Exhibition of Early Italian Art from 1300 - 1550 , 1893-94, no. 249, as 'Andrea del Sarto'.

拍品专文

This captivating portrait of a noblewoman, identified as Contessina Mattei, featured prominently in exhibitions and literature in the nineteenth century, when it was ascribed to Andrea del Sarto. In contemporary documents, Vasari notes Cavalori's success as a portrait painter, a fine example of this talent is evident in his Portrait of a youth (Florence, Museo Bardini). The portraits share a sense of abstraction that is characteristic of the mannerist works of the studiolo painters working for Francesco I de'Medici in the 1560s-70s.

We are grateful to Larry J. Feinberg for suggesting the attribution to Mirabello Cavalori, on the basis of photographs (private communication, 20 July 2007).