Portrait bust of Luca della Robbia, after Giorgio Vasari

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Jan de Bisschop (Amsterdam 1628-1671 The Hague)
Portrait bust of Luca della Robbia, after Giorgio Vasari
with inscription 'Luca della Robbia Scúltore' and with further inscriptions on the verso
black chalk, brown wash, fragmentary brown ink framing lines
10.6 x 8.2 cm.

Provenance

Aron de Joseph de Pinto; Van der Schley et. al., Amsterdam, 11 April 1785, part of lot 441 ('Twee stuks, zynde 't eene het Portrait van L. de la Robbia, Plaatsnyder, [...] met geele Inkt geteekend, door Bisschop.'; 1 guilder [together with lot 442] to Zisenis).
Armand Sigwalt (b. 1875); Frederik Muller & Cie, Amsterdam, 11-14 June 1912, lot 330.
Anton W. Mensing (1866-1936); Frederik Muller & Cie, Amsterdam, 25-27 April 1939, part of lot 89.

Literature

J.G. van Gelder, 'Jan de Bisschop 1628-1671', Oud Holland, LXXXVI, 1971, p. 212, note 50, pl. 41.
M. Jaffé, The Devonshire collection of Northern European Drawings, Turin, London, Venice, 2002, III, p. 336 and under no. 1378, p. 344.

Exhibited

Amsterdam, Koninklijk Oudheidkundig Genootschap, Hoe Hollandse teekenaars Rome zagen 1500-1840, 1940 (no catalogue published).
Florence, Istituto Universitario Olandese, Mostra: Disegni di Jan de Bisschop detto Giovanni Episcopio, 1971, no. 33.
Amsterdam, Museum Het Rembrandthuis, Episcopius: Jan de Bisschop (1628-1671): advocaat en tekenaar, 1992, no. 67.

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Lot Essay

Copied from one of the woodcut portraits illustrating Giorgio Vasari's Delle vite de' Pittori, Scultori, et Architettori che sono state da Cimabue in qua (1568), this is a version of one of the series of fifty such portraits contained in an album (Jaffé, op. cit., nos. 1348-1397) in the Devonshire Collection at Chatsworth (Jaffé, op. cit., no. 1378).

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