Portrait of a bearded man looking to the right, said to be Pellegrino Tibaldi

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Bartolomeo Passarotti (Bologna 1529-1592)
Portrait of a bearded man looking to the right, said to be Pellegrino Tibaldi
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, minor losses made up
14 3/8 x 9½ in. (365 x 243 mm.)

Provenance

N. Hone (L. 2793).
The Emerson Family, Dublin.
T.P.P. Clifford.

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Lot Essay

The sitter can perhaps be identified on comparison with a self-portrait by Tibaldi at the Uffizi (L. Berti et al., Gli Uffizi, catalogo generale, Florence, 1979, p. 1018, no. A936). It probably comes from a series of portraits such as the drawing at the Victoria and Albert Museum, another sold at Christie's, 29 June 1971, lot 41 or the album of twelve Bolognese worthies, also sold at Christie's, 6 June 1972, lot 42 (C. Höper, Bartolomeo Passarotti, Worms, 1987, nos. Z209, Z150 and Z152-63).

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