Circle of Justus Sustermans (Flemish, 1597-1681)
PROPERTY OF THE DAVID WINTON BELL GALLERY, BROWN UNIVERSITY
Circle of Justus Sustermans (Flemish, 1597-1681)

Portrait of Cosimo II de' Medici (1590-1621), Grand Duke of Tuscany, half-length

Details
Circle of Justus Sustermans (Flemish, 1597-1681)
Portrait of Cosimo II de' Medici (1590-1621), Grand Duke of Tuscany, half-length
oil on canvas
23 3/8 x 18 ¾ in. (59.4 x 47.6 cm.)
Provenance
Reverend H. Gregory, 1895.
Thomas Hesslein, Santa Fe, New Mexico, by whom bequeathed to the Bell Gallery in 2001.

Lot Essay

This portrait of Cosimo II de' Medici (1590-1621) can be dated, based on the sitter's apparent age, to early in the second decade of the 17th century. It appears to relate to Justus Suttermans' full-length portrait of the Grand Duke in the Uffizi, Florence, with some differences to the costume (see K. Langedijk, The Portraits of the Medici: 15th-18th Centuries, Florence, 1981, I, pp. 540-541, no. 31, fig. 28,31).

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