Signed (lower left): PR; inscribed (verso, lower left) 17/35b.
: 33 1/2 × 72 in. (85.1 × 182.9 cm) a: 32 5/8 × 23 1/2 in. (82.9 × 59.7 cm) b:
Ratti Textile Center Modern and Contemporary Art 2 of 20 Soprano ophicleide in B-flat
Marking: Arms (central panel, left window): D’or au chevron de sable charge sur sa pointe d’une chaine de quatre chainons d’argent elle meme placee en chevron. For Ingelbrechts (Ingelbrechts or Ymbrechts) of Malines and Spain
Forsyth, William H., and Margaret B. Freeman.
as by Lanini; his estate sale, Christie’s, London, April 8, 1886, no. 235, as by B.
–B. de La Faille. L’Oeuvre de Vincent van Gogh: Catalogue Raisonné.
Daily Chronicle (October 5, 1912), p. 6 [reprinted in J. B.
Inscription: Signed and inscribed: (lower center) NICOLAVS·ZAFVRI·PINXIT·; (top, in Greek) [Christ] being dragged to the cross; (beside Christ’s head, in Greek) Jesus Christ; (right, on banner) SPQR
Florence, 1759, vol. 3, p. 5, describes a painting of this subject, with the same
Inscription: Two stickers affixed to verso of mat; across top sticker: „Original Work From / SNOW WHITE / and / THE SEVEN DWARFS“; across bottom sticker: „This Material Inflammable / HANDLE WITH CARE / Frame Under Glass / Copyright 1937 / WALT DISNEY ENTERPRISES“
Hartford Courant, January 30, 1939, p. 4.
This arresting portrait of an unidentified young Florentine is dated by most scholars to the 1530s. During that decade Bronzino was often engaged in painting members of a close-knit circle of acquaintances with whom he shared literary interests, and this sitter—who so conspicuously holds open a book—may be from among that group
Harry B. Wehle.
Marking: Arms (central panel, left window): D’or au chevron de sable charge sur sa pointe d’une chaine de quatre chainons d’argent elle meme placee en chevron. For Ingelbrechts (Ingelbrechts or Ymbrechts) of Malines and Spain
Forsyth, William H., and Margaret B. Freeman.
